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Issei internees from Kauai, Santa Fe Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. Bottom Row (L-R): Rev. Kakusho Izumi, Isamu Ueoka, Zenzo Kisada, Kazuto Taketa, Yozaemon Yamamoto, Masaji Toyofuku, Kenji Yoshiura, Kokichi Tsuji, Rev. Hironori Nishii. Top Row: Kazuto Yokota, Zenkichi Morita, unknown, Isuke Horikawa, unknown, Kenichi Hataishi, Sunao Fujii, unknown. JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
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Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Camp Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. Bottom row, kneeling and seated (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (1st), Kenji Yoshiura (2nd), Ryozo Izutsu (3rd), Kaetsu Furuya (4th), Yukiyasu Sodetani (5th), Koshi Tatsuhara (6th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (7th), Rev. Hironori Nishii (9th, on chair). 2nd Row, seated: Mankichi Miura (2nd, without tie), Takeo Seike (3rd), Kameo Tahara (4th), Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (5th), Rev. Hiseki Miyasaki (6th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (7th), Yozaemon Yamamoto (8th), Zenzo Kisada (9th), Masaji Toyofuku (10th/4th fr R), Chiyomatsu Hamamura (11th/3rd fr R), Kazuto Yokota (13th/1st fr R). 3rd Row: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Sukenoshin Nakano (2nd), Kazuto Taketa (3rd), Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (4th), Rev. Gijo Ozawa (5th), Rev. Chiko Odate (6th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (7th, wearing hat), Isuke Horikawa (8th/3rd fr R), Enichi Saiki (9th/2nd fr R), Kyoichi Uyeda (10th/1st fr R). Top Row: Kyushichi Hayashi (2nd), Kenichi Hataishi (4th), Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (5th), Kokichi Tsuji (6th), Katsutaro Yamasaki (7th), Meijiro Hayashi (8th/3rd fr R), Sunao Fujii (9th/2nd fr R), Isamu Ueoka (10th/1st fr R). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (2nd). Row 2 (seated): Shigeru Yano (4th), Yozaemon Yamamoto (5th), Yuichi Nakaichi (8th/2nd fr R). Row 3: Zenkichi Morita (3rd), Kiyoshi Yonemura (9th/3rd fr R). Top row: Hironori Nishii (1st), Sunao Fujii (6th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internment Locations
Arrested: May 1942
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth 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
March 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.