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.

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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Second Transfer Group (Missoula): March 1942

This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second 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. This internee was in a sub-group of Second Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

3月 1942 - 4月 1942

Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma

4月 1942 - 5月 1942

Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943

Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

6月 1943 - 4月 1944

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

4月 1944 - 10月 1945

Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.

At the time of his arrest, Ikuzo Kuniyuki was one month shy of his 76th birthday. He is believed to be the oldest Hawaii resident imprisoned during the Japanese American incarceration.

His grandson Arata Kuniyuki was a member of the the U.S. Military Intelligence Service during World War II.