Group Media & Photos
Issei internees from Kauai, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Bottom Row (L-R): Unknown, Isamu Ueoka, Zenzo Kisada, Kazuto Taketa, Yozaemon Yamamoto, Masaji Toyofuku, Kenji Yoshiura, Kokichi Tsuji, unknown. Top Row: Kazuto Yokota, Zenkichi Morita, unknown, Isuke Horikawa, unknown, Kenichi Hataishi, Sunao Fujii, unknown. JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Internees from Kauai at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front 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). Row 2, 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 (4th from R), Chiyomatsu Hamamura (3rd from R), Kazuto Yokota (1st from R). Row 3: 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 (3rd from R), Enichi Saiki (2nd from R), Kyoichi Uyeda (1st from R). Back row: Kyushichi Hayashi (2nd), Kenichi Hataishi (4th), Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (5th), Kokichi Tsuji (6th), Katsutaro Yamasaki (7th), Meijiro Hayashi (3rd from R), Sunao Fujii (2nd from R), Isami Ueoka (1st from R). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Arrested: April 1942
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Military Police Detention Camp, Lihue, Kauai Island
November 1942 - March 1943
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
March 1943
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
March 1943 - July 1943
Thirty-four Issei men were sent in the ninth transfer group for incarceration in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp. Some were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps and reunited with family members under confinement, others were 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.