Group Media & Photos

Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row: Matsujiro Otani (4th from R). Row 2: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto, Waimea, Kauai (1st from L, standing); Rev. Doro Kanda (1st from R); Mankichi Miura, Kapaa, Kauai (2nd from R). Row 3 (L-R): Yuichi Nakaichi (14th); Nekketsu Takei (17th); Tsuruzo Hasegawa, Kekaha, Kauai (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, Eleele, Kauai (11th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.

Buddhist priests from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, April 1944. Bottom row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi, Rev. Hozui Nakayama, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Enryo Shigefuji (Fresno, Calif.), Bishop Ninryo Nago, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama, Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Yutetsu Matsui, unknown, unknown, Rev. Doro Kanda. Middle row (L-R): Rev. Dojin Ochi (Los Angeles), Rev. Ryuko Tachibana (Los Angeles, formerly of Hawaii), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri, Rev. Gendo Okawa, Rev. Suijo Kabashima, Rev. Tenran Mori, unknown, Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Hakuai Oda, Rev. Taizen Imamura, Rev. Hosho Kurohira, Rev. Shunjo Shiratori, Rev. Bunpo Kuwatsuki (Los Angeles), unknown, Rev. Shodo Kawamura. Top row (L-R): Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato, Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, unknown, Rev. Kenju Ohtomo, unknown, Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba, Zenko Saigusa, Rev. Kodo Fujitani, Rev. Kenjo Ohara, Rev. Giko Abiko (Calif.), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi, unknown. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

Issei men at Santa Fe Internment Camp in winter. Otokichi Ozaki (sitting, 5th from L); Rev. Doro Kanda (sitting, 8th from L). JCCH/ Bryant Yagi Family Collection.

Santa Fe Internment Camp, dining hall, ca. 1944-1945. Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama (1st row, 2nd from left). Right Table, seated 1st row from right: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd from Front), Rev. Hakuai Oda (6th from front), Reverend Josen Deme (7th from front). Minoru Murakami (standing row behind left table, 3rd from front). JCCH/ Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (2nd), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (5th), Rev. Zenko Saigusa (6th). Row 2: Kazuyuki Kawano (2nd), Takeo Seike (3rd), Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (4th), Mankichi Miura (5th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Rev. Kenjyo Ohara (8th), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri (9th). Row 3: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd, with tie), Hirouemon Yamamoto (4th), Tsuruichi Sarae (6th), Rev. Tenran Mori (7th), Sukenoshin Nakano (1st fr R). Row 4: Riuichi Ipponsugi (2nd). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
Arrested: April 1942
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. These men 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.
Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
6月 1942 - 7月 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
7月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 10月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.