Group Media & Photos
Softball players at the Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana, ca. June 1943 - April 1944. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Joei Oi (1st), Rev. Shushin Matsubayashi (3rd), Masayuki Chikuma (5th), Rev. Konin Matano (6th), Osuke Shigemoto (7th), Hideyuki Serizawa (10th), Ichitaro Charles Hasebe (11th/1st R). Row 2 (L-R): Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba (1st), Totaro Matsui (2nd), Kinzo Sayegusa (4th), Kumaji Furuya (5th), Sawajiro Ozaki (6th). Back row (L-R): Rev. Hakuai Oda (2nd), Daizo Sumida (6th), Rev. Josen Deme (10th), Rev. Gendo Okawa (11th), Taichi Sato (13th), Rev. Kaneki Honda (14th), Aisuke Shigekuni (15th), Setsuzo Toyota (16th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Painting exhibition at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, July 1944. Front row (L-R): Setsuzo Toyota (4th), Aisuke Shigekuni (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi (3rd), Yoshio Koike (4th), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (5th), Julian P. Langston, Santa Fe camp administrator (6th), Lloyd Jensen, Officer-In-Charge (7th), Masao Ikeno, art instructor (8th), Koshi Tatsuhara (10th). Row 3 (L-R): Rev. Hakuai Oda (3rd), Soichi Obata (4th), Rev. Josen Deme (5th), Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa (10th). Back row (L-R): Osuke Shigemoto (4th), Yasutaro Soga (8th), Masayuki Chikuma (10th), Katsuichi Miho (12th), Koichi Iida (14th), Yoshinobu Kato (15th). JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Broadcast Department members at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, ca. 1944-1945. Front row (L-R): Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeru Yano (3rd), Shigeki Mizumoto (4th), Yuichi Nakaichi (5th). Row 2 (L-R): Minoru Murakami (2nd), Genpachi Tsushima (3rd), Kumaji Furuya (6th). Back row (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Totaro Matsui (4th), Rev. Kodo Fujitani (5th). JCCH/Pat Saiki Archival Collection.
Theatrical group ("o-shibai") at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Row 2 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd), Masayuki Chikuma (3rd), Katsuichi Kawamoto (6th). Row 3: Rev. Suijo Kabashima (3rd), Soichi Obata (8th), Rev. Shoho Fujiie (10th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Theatrical group ("o-shibai") at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, ca. 1944-1945. Front row (L-R): Tsuneichi Yamamoto (7th), Masayuki Chikuma (8th). Row 2: Katsuichi Kawamoto (1st), Yuichi Nakaichi (2nd), Genpachi Tsushima (5th). Back row: Hamada (3rd from R), Zenkichi Morita (2nd from R), Soichi Obata (1st from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Two Japanese American soldiers visiting the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, January 23, 1945. Front row (L-R): Osuke Shigemoto (2nd); [Richard Sakaye] Shigemoto, son of Osuke Shigemoto (3rd); Totaro Matsui (5th). Row 2 (L-R): Daizo Sumida (1st), Kumaji Furuya (2nd), Ryuichi Moribe (3rd), Kogan Yoshizumi (4th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (5th), Sawajiro Ozaki (6th), Koichi Iida (7th). Back row (L-R): Yasutaro Soga (1st), Masayuki Chikuma (3rd), Riuichi Ipponsugi (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
Cast and crew of “Hiroshima Miyage to Tamazo” (Hiroshima Souvenir and Tamazo) at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, March 1945. The script for this drama was likely written by an internee. Row 2 (L-R): Shigeru Yano (10th). Row 3 (L-R): Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (3rd), Masayuki Chikuma (4th), Genpachi Tsushima (7th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (8th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.
Theatrical group ("kabuki") at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, June 1944. Row 2 (L-R): Sawajiro Ozaki (4th). Row 3: Tsuneichi Yamamoto (1st), Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeki Mizumoto (3rd), Genpachi Tsushima (4th), Shoho Fujiie (5th), Shigeru Yano (6th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (7th). Back row: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Kiyoshi James Yonemura (5th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Arrested: February 1942
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent on the second transfer ship for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members under confinement. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943 - April 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
April 1944 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
A Shinto priest after the war, Masayuki Chikuma was better known during the prewar years as an entertainer and as the manager of the Toyo Theater in Honolulu's A'ala district. A former stage actor, he was one of a handful of popular benshi who gave voice and sound effects to the silent Japanese films that entertained the immigrant community.