Group Media & Photos
Maui Nikkei Community Members. ca. 1925. Front Row (L-R): Gunsuke Yasui (1st), Katsuichi Kawamoto (2nd), Dr. Seiichi Ohata (3rd), Dr. Koshiro Tofukuji (4th), Hisahi Ito (5th or 6th). Back Row: Nagao Otsuka (2nd), Miyamoto (3rd), Dr. Yukihide Kohatsu (4th), Jiro Fujiyoshi (5th), Tomoeda (6th), Yasujiro Matsuda, Dr. Kohatsu's driver (7th), Matsuzo Kozaki (8th). JCCH/ Takuzo Kawamoto Collection.
Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. Hawaii internees: Row 2 (L-R): Mannosuke Komu (1st, seated), Usaburo Katamoto (2nd, seated), Tetsunosuke Sone (5th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (6th), Yukihide Kohatsu (8th), Hirouemon Yamamoto (9th). Ryuichi Moribe (10th), Ichiji Kinoshita (11th). Row 3: Neichiro Nakagawa (4th), Isoo Kato (6th), Gengo Honda (9th, glasses, facing left), Jiro Yoshizawa (10th), Eijiro Suzuki (11th). Row 4: Taizen Imamura (2nd, at center with tie), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Tomoye Ikeda (5th). Row 5: Kichisuke Yoda (2nd), Manjiro Konno (3rd), Riichi Togawa (4th), Katsuichi Miho (5th). Back row: Setsuzo Toyota (1st), Unji Hirayama (2nd, white shirt). Inset (L-R): Kenju Ohtomo (1st), Yukihide Kohatsu (2nd), Tomoichi Hayashi (3rd). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Original identifications for photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Signatures on back of photograph of Internment Camp Hospital staff, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, February 1945. JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Hawaii internees in front of the Liaison Office at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, January 1945. Front row (L-R): Kumaji Furuya, Shujiro Takakuwa, Mankichi Goto, Chosuke Kayahara, Suekichi Oka, Nisshu Kobayashi, Shuji Mikami, Sadasuke Hamamoto, Konin Matano, Isaku Orita, Makitaro Tamura, Minosuke Hanabusa, Giichi Sasaki, Ryosen Yonahara, Tomiji Kimura, Ninryo Nago, Shin Yoshida. Row 2: Katsuichi Tanaka, Yasuemon Miki, Ryoichi Tanaka, Hatsutaro Toyofuku, Toshio Iinuma, Masaichi Hirashima, Tamaichi Tanaka, Uemon Ida, Kinai Ikuma, Hanzo Shimoda, Yoshizo Ishikawa, William Toka Ida, Katsuichi Kawamoto, Daizo Sumida, Aisuke Shigekuni, Sadato Morifuji. Row 3: Takegoro Kusao, Setsuzo Toyota, Jinshichi Tokairin, Hidekichi Nakamoto, Gendo Okawa, Joei Oi, Yasutaro Soga, Zensuke Kurosawa, Tsunetaro Harada, Tamaki Arita, Hego Fuchino, Kogan Yoshizumi, Osuke Shigemoto, Hakuai Oda, Shinri Sarashina, Yoshinobu Sasaki, Unknown, Seiichi Fujii, Tokikichi Sugimoto, Shuntaro Ikezawa, Goki Tatsuguchi, Suekuma Takaki. Back row: Unknown, Suijo Kabashima, Koichi Iida, Sawajiro Ozaki, Shoho Fujiie, Unknown, Shigeki Mizumoto, Soichi Obata, Muneo Kimura, Yukihide Kohatsu, Tomoichi Hayashi, Kakujiro Nishiki, Takeo Miyagi, Josen Deme, Gikyo Kuchiba, Eita Sato, Ryuichi Kashima, Hideyuki Serizawa, Kinzo Sayegusa. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Bottom Row (L-R): Katsuichi Kawamoto (1st), Ryuichi Moribe (2nd), Uyemon Inokuchi (3rd), Koichi Iida (4th), Shuntaro Ikezawa (5th), Hatsuichi Toishigawa (6th), Yasutaro Soga (7th), Daizo Sumida (8th), Ryoichi Tanaka (9th), Mannosuke Komu (10th). 2nd Row: Heiji Yamagata (1st), Gihei Tanada (2nd), Totaro Matsui (3rd), Kumaji Furuya (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Rev. Ninryo Nago (6th), Tokuji Onodera (7th), Minoru Murakami (8th), Kanji Tanaka (9th), Shigeo Shigenaga (10th), Shujiro Takakuwa (11th), Yukihide Kohatsu (12th), Mankichi Goto (13th). 3rd Row: Tetsuji Kurokawa (1st), Eita Sato (2nd), Hirouemon Yamamoto (3rd), Hyotaro Nakami (4th), Sadato Morifuji (5th), Ryuichi Murata (6th), Kakujiro Nishiki (7th), Sawajiro Ozaki (8th), Soichi Obata (9th), Masaichi Kobayashi (10th), Kango Hamada (11th), Takasuke Isomura (12th), Katsukichi Wakimoto (13th). Top Row: Yojiro Osaki (1st), Hego Fuchino (2nd), Teiichiro Maehara (3rd), Kinzo Sayegusa (4th), Yuichi Nakaichi (5th), Yoshihisa Tamura (6th), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (7th), Muneo Kimura (8th), Hideo Tanaka (9th), Toraichi Kurakake (10th), Tamasaku Watanabe (11th), Mankichi Miura (12th), Riuichi Ipponsugi (13th). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.
Arrested: February 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 172 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) was sent aboard the military transport ship USS U.S. Grant 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
Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin
March 1942 - May 1942
Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee
May 1942 - June 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.
Dr. Yukihide Kohatsu arrived in the Hawaiian Islands from his native Okinawa in 1913, two years after his graduation from medical school in Japan. He spent his career practicing medicine in Honolulu, where he aided in the development of the Japanese Hospital (later Kuakini Medical Center) and served as president of the Honolulu Japanese Medical Society.
From confinement, in 1942, he requested repatriation to Japan and was denied. The American government deemed Kohatsu to be "extremely pro-Japanese, anti-American and one who should be considered as dangerous to the internal security of the United States."
Kohatsu returned to the islands following his incarceration and continued to serve as a leader in the Okinawan community.