Group Media & Photos
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.
Honolulu Education Association Board, 31st year, 1966. Front Row: Tokiji Takei (1st from L), Yoshiharu Kodama (2nd from R). JCCH/Tokiji Sojin Takei Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: September 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of twenty-three Issei men were sent aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - December 1944
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
December 1944 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Tokiji Takei's younger brother, Yoshinobu Takei, was inducted into the U.S. Army in December 1940 and was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion. In October 1943, Yoshinobu Takei was killed in action in Italy.