Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, November 1943. Row 1: Mamoru Suga (3rd from R). Row 2 (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (2nd), Yoshio Koike (7th), Katsuichi Wakimoto (12th). Row 3 (L-R): Sadato Morifuji (2nd), Yuichi Nakamura (4th), Futoshi Ohama (5th), Kazuto Taketa (8th), Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Kogan Yoshizumi (11th). Top Row: Isoo Kato (5th), Mannosuke Komu (8th), Kodo Fujitani (12th/3rd from R). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
Internees in front of Buddhist altar, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front Row (L-R): Ichiro Genishi (1st), Mannosuke Komu (2nd), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (3rd), Rev. Hakuai Oda (4th). Back Row: Yuichi Nakamura (3rd). JCCH/ Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Barracks 62, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Row 1 (L-R): Rev. Shunjo Shiratori (8th), Rev. Tetsuo Tanaka (9th), Takejiro Nakagawa (11th), Koshi Tatsuhara (12th). Row 2: Ryuichi Moribe (1st), Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi (2nd), Katsuichi Wakimoto (8th). Row 3: Yoshio Koike (6th), Futoshi Ohama (8th), Nekketsu Takei (10th), Kazuto Taketa (15th), Masaichi Kobayashi (18th; OR: 6th from R). Row 5: Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Usaburo Katamoto (5th). JCCH/ Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Row 1(L-R): Isamu Ueoka (3rd). Row 2: Rev. Joei Oi (3rd), Tsuruichi Sarae (4th), Rev. Sujio Kabashima (8th). Row 3: Rev. Tenran Mori (8th), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (9th), Yuichi Nakamura (10th). Row 4: Mamoru Suga (6th), Kazuto Yokota (7th). JCCH/ Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944. Left Row 1 (L-R): Takejiro Nakagawa (1st), Yasutaro Soga (2nd). Right Row 1: Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (1st); Row 2: Yoshio Koike (1st), Yuichi Nakamura (2nd), Nekketsu Takei (4th); Row 3: Rev. Gijo Ozawa (2nd, glasses). Center, Back: Rev. Kyodo Fujihana (seated), Rev. Ninryo Nago (standing, beard). Anonymous donor
Golf club, Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Soichi Obata (1st), Minoru Murakami (7th, with sign), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (8th). Row 2: Tsuruichi Sarae (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (6th). Row 3: Yuichi Nakamura (1st fr R). Row 4: Hidekichi Nakamoto (4th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). Row 5: Shigeki Mizumoto (1st, with tie), Mamoru Suga (4th), Kinzo Sayegusa (5th). JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga 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.
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
One hundred and nine Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the third transfer ship for incarceration 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 under confinement, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
June 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
June 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
Yuichi Nakamura came with his family as a teenager to Kauai Island from his native Hiroshima. He later moved to Honolulu and in 1930 opened a hotel in the city's immigrant A'ala district. He was a member of the Honolulu Japanese Hotel Association, along with some ten other innkeepers. Members who also were incarcerated included Tokuji Baba, Sukeichi Koide, Ichiro Sato, and Jinshichi Tokairin.