Group Media & Photos
Barracks 62, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Row 1: Rev. Shunjo Shiratori (8th), Rev. Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Takejiro Nakagawa (11th), Koshi Tatsuhara (12th). Row 2: Ryuichi Moribe (1st), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Katsuichi Wakimoto (8th). Row 3: Yoshio Koike (6th), Futoshi Ohama (8th), Nekketsu Takei (10th), Kazuto Taketa (15th), Masaichi Kobayashi (18th; OR: 6th from R). Row 5: Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Usaburo Katamoto (5th). JCCH/ Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom row (L-R): Ryuichi Moribe (5th), Nekketsu Takei (6th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Yasutaro Soga (8th). Top row (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st), Katsuichi Kawamoto (2nd), Masaichi Kobayashi (5th), Sadato Morifuji (6th), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (7th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row: Matsujiro Otani (4th from R). Row 1: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto, Waimea, Kauai (1st from L, standing); Rev. Doro Kanda (1st from R); Mankichi Miura, Kapaa, Kauai (2nd from R). Row 3 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (14th); Nekketsu Takei (17th); Tsuruzo Hasegawa, Kekaha, Kauai (19th from L/6th from R); Katsuichi Kawamoto (20th from L/5th from R). Top row (L-R): Sunao Fujii (4th); Masaichi Kobayashi (8th); Zenkichi Morita, Eleele, Kauai (11th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internees from Oahu. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. Front row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (3rd), Ryoichi Tanaka (5th), Nekketsu Takei (8th). Row 2: Mamoru Suga (2nd), Kazuyuki Kawano (3rd), Mannosuke Komu (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944. Left Row 1 (L-R): Takejiro Nakagawa (1st), Yasutaro Soga (2nd). Right Row 1: Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (1st); Row 2: Yoshio Koike (1st), Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Nekketsu Takei (4th). Row 3: Rev. Gijo Ozawa (2nd, glasses). Center, Back: Rev. Kyodo Fujihana (seated), Rev. Ninryo Nago (standing, beard). JCCH/Anonymous donor.
Honolulu businessmen, ca. 1950. Front Row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st), Taichi Sato (2nd), Sadato Morifuji (3rd), Katsuichi Kawamoto (5th), Nekketsu Takei (6th), Soichi Obata (8th). Row 2: Seiichi Shimamoto (5th). Row 3: Manzuchi Hashimoto (6th), Ozuke Shigemoto (7th). Back Row: Katsuichi Wakimoto (6th), Motohiro Tanimura (7th), Yuichi Nakaichi (10th). JCCH/Charles and Claire Richardson.
Internment Locations
Arrested: June 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among forty-nine men (mostly Issei) who were sent in the fifth transfer group 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
August 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - July 1944
Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado
July 1944 - June 1945
Returned to Hawaii: July 1945
In the summer of 1945, the U.S. Army allowed ten of Hawaii's 160 internees with sons serving in the military to return to the islands.
Two of Nekketsu Takei's sons, Atsuo Takei and Haruo Takei, served in the U.S. military during World War II. Haruo, also known as Robert Haruo, was in Sacramento, California, at the time of the imposition of Executive Order 9066 and was sent to the Tule Lake Segregation Center. In 1943, with his father interned, Haruo volunteered for the army from Tule Lake and was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for training. Haruo was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.
Other internees with soldier sons who returned in summer 1945 were Ryosei Aka, Ryozo Izutsu, Kichitaro Kawauchi, Kametaro Maeda, Teiichiro Maehara, Tamehachi Makihira, Nobuichi Miura, Kyoichi Miyata, and Hanzo Shimoda.