Group Media & Photos
Rev. Kinzaemon Odachi. JCCH/Masako Ebisuzaki and Mitsuko Shigemasa Collection.
Kinzaemon Odachi with his four children. L to R: Michiko, Masako, Michio, and Mitsuko. JCCH/Masako Ebisuzaki and Mitsuko Shigemasa Collection.
Funeral for Rev. Kinzaemon Odachi, Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, October 1943. JCCH/Masako Ebisuzaki and Mitsuko Shigemasa Collection.
Arrested: December 1941
Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island
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 1943
Died in Camp: October 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
Kinzaemon Odachi and his wife, Kameki, arrived in the Hawaiian Islands as missionaries of the Buddhist Tenri-kyo sect and in the early 1930s established a church in the Shinmachi district of Hilo, Hawaii Island. Following Kinzaemon Odachi's arrest and imprisonment on the Mainland, Kameki Odachi was sent with her children to the Jerome Concentration Camp in Arkansas. It was hoped that the family would reunite here but, in late 1943, Kinzaemon Odachi fell ill and died in the Santa Fe Internment Camp in New Mexico.