Group Media & Photos

Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Camp Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. 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 (4th), 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.

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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: 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.

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

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 3月 1944

Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas

3月 1944 - 6月 1944

Rohwer Relocation Center, Arkansas

6月 1944 - 8月 1945

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.

As resident priest of the Lihue Hongwanji Mission, Rev. Hiseki Miyasaki oversaw the development of the temple's Japanese language school and promoted the establishment of Young Buddhist Associations modeled after the YMCA. He died several years after returning from internment, having served the community on Kauai for 45 years.