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Internment Locations

Arrested: March 1943


Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island


This internee was among thirty-four Issei men who were sent in the ninth 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.


Sharp Park Detention Station, California

July 1943 - August 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

August 1943 - October 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Genpachi Tsushima's wife, Shizue, was the daughter of Shinto priest Toramatsu Matsumoto, who also was interned. The two men spent most of their confinement together in Santa Fe.