Group Media & Photos

Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Setsugo Togioka (2nd), Koshi Tatsuhara (3rd), Isamu Ueoka (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Torao Iseri (8th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (9th). 2nd Row: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st), Rev. Takao Ama (2nd), Kyoichi Uyeda (3rd), Zenkichi Morita (5th), Ikuzo Kuniyuki (6th), Kenichi Hataishi (8th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). 3rd Row: Sunao Fujii (1st), Mankichi Miura (2nd), Kazuto Yokota (3rd), Takeo Seike (4th), Masaji Toyofuku (5th), Shinjiro Matayoshi (6th), Shizuma Tanji (7th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (8th), Yonezo Kanja (9th), Zenzo Kisada (10th), Ishimatsu Shintani (11th). Top Row: Junzo Mashita (3rd), Jukichi Inouye (5th), Kenji Yoshiura (6th), Kazumi Matsumoto (9th), Gengo Honda (10th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Camp Internment Camp. 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, 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.

Issei internees from Kauai, Santa Fe Internment Camp. 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.

Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (2nd). Row 2 (seated): 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.

Internees sight seeing at Cross of the Martyrs, Santa Fe. Sunao Fujii, kneeling, far right. JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

Hawaii Tenrikyo ministers with bishop of the Tenrikyo American Mission. Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front Row (L-R): Sunao Fujii (1st), Ichiro Genishi (2nd), Rev. Hidekichi Nakamoto (1st from R). Back Row (L-R): Rev. Naoichi Seto (1st), Rev. Masayuki Iwata (2nd), Rev. Sakujiro Ueno (3rd), American Mission Bishop Masaharu Hashimoto (4th), Rev. Kaneki Honda (5th), Osuke Shigemoto (2nd from right). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row: Matsujiro Otani (4th from R). Row 2: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st from L, standing), Rev. Doro Kanda (1st from R), Mankichi Miura (2nd from R). Row 3 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (14th), Nekketsu Takei (17th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (19th from L/6th from R), Katsuichi Kawamoto (20th from L/5th from R). Top row (L-R): Sunao Fujii (4th), Masaichi Kobayashi (8th), Zenkichi Morita (11th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Arrested: November 1942
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
3月 1943 - 8月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
8月 1943 - 10月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.