Group Media & Photos
Dr. Motokazu Mori. JCCH/Victor Mori Archival Collection.
June 1922. L-R: Dr. Iga Mori (father of Motokazu), Yaye Mori (mother of Motokazu), Dr. Tasuku Harada (University of Hawaii professor), Dr. Tomizo Katsunuma (veterinarian), Hachiro Kishi, Dr. Motokazu Mori, Misao Harada Mori (first wife of Motokazu). JCCH/ Victor Mori Archival Collection.
Celebration of Motokazu Mori's earning of a PhD from Tokyo Imperial University, ca. 1936. Motokazu Mori with lei; his father Dr. Iga Mori, third from left. JCCH/Victor Mori Archival Collection.
The Motokazu Mori Family. L-R: Daughter Pearl (2nd); son Victor (3rd); Dr. Iga Mori, Motokazu's father (4th); son Ramsay (5th); and Dr. Motokazu Mori (6th). JCCH/Victor Mori Archival Collection.
Home in Nuuanu after internment, the Mori family eats dinner together, ca. 1945. Clockwise from left: father Dr. Iga Mori, daughter Pearl, sons Ramsey and Victor, Ishiko Mori, and Motokazu Mori. JCCH/Victor Mori Archival Collection.
Arrested: December 1941
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
January 1942 - September 1942
A group of twenty-eight Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent in the sixth transfer group for internment 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, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
September 1942 - October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - August 1943
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
August 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Motokazu Mori was the son of the prominent Issei physician, Iga Mori, who helped to establish the Japanese Hospital in Honolulu, later Kuakini Medical Center. Motokazu Mori was born in Japan and received his medical training there. He joined his father in Honolulu and established a practice in surgery.
Several years following the death of his first wife, the daughter of respected University of Hawaii professor Tasuku Harada, Mori married the physician Ishiko Shibuya, a newcomer in training at the Japanese Hospital. Along with two sons from Motokazu's earlier marriage, the Moris reared their two children and pursued their growing medical careers.
Several days before December 7, 1941, Ishiko Mori conducted an interview of her husband on the state of affairs in the territory for a newspaper in Japan. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the actions of the Moris came under suspicion and the couple were arrested and accused of spying.
The Moris were incarcerated separately on the U.S. Mainland; they were reunited at Crystal City in 1943, working at the camp hospital until their release in 1945.
After the war, a U.S. congressional commission determined that neither of the Moris had engaged in espionage.