Group Media & Photos

Seichi Tsuchiya, photo from his U.S. passport signed on October 8, 1921 by Territorial Governor Wallace R. Farrington. JCCH/Seichi Tsuchiya and Fred Kinzaburo Makino Collection.

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Seichi Tsuchiya, in front of the Shogyo Jiho Magazine office.  JCCH/Seichi Tsuchiya & Fred Kinzaburo Makino Collection.

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Welcome Reception for Tatsuichi Nakamura of the Toyo Paint Manufacturing Company at Mochizuki Teahouse, Honolulu, 1939. Row 1 (L-R): Shoichi Asami (1st). Row 2: Daizo Sumida (1st), Seiichi Tsuchiya (4th). Row 3: Katsuichi Kawamoto (3rd), Katsuichi Wakimoto (4th). JCCH/Seiichi Tsuchiya and Fred Kinzaburo Makino Collection.

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Internment Locations

Arrested: February 1943

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island

Paroled: July 1944

Released from Parole: September 1945

The brother of renown Honolulu newspaperman, Fred Kinzaburo Makino, Seichi Tsuchiya was himself an accomplished journalist and publisher. In 1920, he founded the Commercial Times, the only Japanese-language monthly published in the territory at that time. A veteran of World War I, Tsuchiya became a naturalized citizen in 1937.