Group Media & Photos

Kuakini Hospital Building Fund Committee. Honolulu, March 1953. Front Row (seated, L-R): Tokuji Tsuji (1st), Katsuichi Kawamoto (2nd), Kumaji Furuya (4th), Chomatsu Tsukiyama (5th), Daizo Sumida (6th), Tokuyoshi Awamura (8th), Shigeru Horita (9th). Row 2: Clarence Keiso Karimoto (1st), Masayuki Tokioka (2nd), Motohiro Tanimura (6th), Mannosuke Komu (11th). Row 3: Katsuichi Wakimoto (3rd), Sawajiro Ozaki (5th), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (6th). Row 4: Takeo Isoshima (4th), Shinzaburo Sumida (6th), Katsuro Miho (7th). Back Row: Osuke Shigemoto (1st), Robert Yoichi Sato (4th). JCCH/Takuzo Kawamoto Collection.

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Japanese language teachers. Tokiji Takei (2nd row, 2nd from R), Totaro Matsui (3rd row, 4th from L), Shinzaburo Sumida (4th row, 1st from R), Otokichi Ozaki (back row, 1st from L). JCCH/Tokiji Sojin Takei Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

First Transfer Group: February 1942

This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the military transport ship U.S. Grant for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

March 1942

Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

March 1942 - May 1942

Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

May 1942 - June 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

June 1942 - August 1942

Sent Back to Hawaii: August 1942

This internee was part of a group of about nineteen internees (all Nisei, likely mistaken for Issei) who were returned to Hawaii in August 1942. Some spent the rest of their incarceration in Hawaii, while others were sent once again to the Mainland but this time to War Relocation Authority camps.

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

August 1942 - March 1943

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

March 1943 - November 1944

Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

November 1944 - November 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.