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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: October 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among forty-two Issei men who were sent in the eighth transfer group for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees 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.


Sharp Park Detention Station, California

3月 1943 - 8月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

8月 1943 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

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


Yuichi Nakaichi arrived in Honolulu in 1907, a young graduate of an Osaka art school, where he had learned to paint in the tradition of western realism. With the prospects for an artist in Hawaii slim, Nakaichi opened a sign shop and became a businessman, but he continued to paint whenever he had the chance. He painted during his internment as well, and his works provide glimpses of life under incarceration.

As Nakaichi remained confined in camp, his older son, George Masao Nakaichi, served as a sergeant with the U.S. Military Intelligence Service.

In the years after the war, Yuichi Nakaichi would be recognized as one of the earliest artists in the Hawaii Japanese community to paint in the western tradition.