Group Media & Photos

Internees originally from Ehime Prefecture. Santa Fe Internment Camp, July 1943. Hawaii internees: Row 1 (L-R): Kazuaki Tanaka (2nd), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (4th). Row 2: Wasaburo Uranaka (4th), Takeo Seike (9th). Row 3: Usaburo Katamoto (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Shingon ministers and supporters. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. Front Row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Ganta Sugimura (8th). 2nd Row (L-R): Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi (Teiichi) Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). 3rd Row (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). Back row (L-R): Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: April 1942

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Third Transfer Group: May 1942

This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship 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

June 1942

Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas

June 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1942 - June 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

June 1943 - March 1945

Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

Reunited with family

March 1945 - December 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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

Waialua businessman Kazuaki Tanaka was in late 1940 among a group of prominent community leaders behind the development of a modern multi-story department store in downtown Honolulu called The House of Mitsukoshi. Modeled on its well-known Tokyo namesake, it carried the latest in Japanese home goods and boasted the first escalator in the territory. 

Other executives involved in the venture included president Lawrence T. Kagawa and directors Shigeru Horita and Eiichi Kishida, who also were interned with the outbreak of war. 

The Mitsukoshi property was seized by the federal government in 1942, and the department store converted into the headquarters for the American USO.