Group Media & Photos

Buddhist ministers from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1942-1943. Bottom Row (L-R): Daishin Ikejiri, Kogan Yoshizumi, Zenkai Kokuzo, Ninryo Nago, Ryoyu Kitajima, Nozaki (not from Hawaii), Shunjo Shiratori, Teizen Imamura. Middle Row: Tetsuo Tanaka, Ikeda, Shoyu Kitajima, Shuzui Hino, Taigaku Ueshima, Gijo Ozawa, Ryuko Tachibana, Gyokuei Matsuura. Top Row: Kenko Yamashita (not from Hawaii), [Mitsuomi] Yamane, Kozan Nishizawa, Tetsuei Katoda, Ryudo Kubota, [Tessui] Hanada, Koetsu Morita. JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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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.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp, November 1943. Row 1: Mamoru Suga (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (2nd), Yoshio Koike (7th), Katsuichi Wakimoto (12th). Row 3 (L-R): Sadato Morifuji (2nd), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Futoshi Ohama (5th), Kazuto Taketa (8th), Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Kogan Yoshizumi (11th). Top Row: Isoo Kato (5th), Mannosuke Komu (8th), Kodo Fujitani (12th/3rd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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Members of Barrack 65, Santa Fe Interment Camp, ca. 1945. Rev. Tetsuo Tanaka (1st Row 3rd from L), Rev. Shigeo Fujino (2nd Row, 3rd from L). JCCH/Nancy M. Fujino Collection.

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Religious group. Santa Fe Internment Camp, October 1945. Bottom row (L-R): Kogan Yoshizumi (3rd), Gendo Okawa (6th), Tetsuo Tanaka (7th), Yoshio Koike (8th). Row 2: Aisuke Shigekuni (3rd from L). Back Row: Minoru Murakami (2nd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: March 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 1944

Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

March 1944 - May 1944

Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

May 1944 - January 1945

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

January 1945 - December 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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

In the spring of 1944, Tetsuo Tanaka was released from Santa Fe and paroled to the Jerome camp, where he was reunited with his family. A couple of months later, the Tanaka family was transferred to Tule Lake. While there, Tanaka was reported to have participated in "pro-Japanese demonstrations," and for this, his parole was revoked and he was sent back to Santa Fe, where he remained for the duration of his internment.