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Buddhist priests from Hawaii. Santa Fe Internment Camp, April 1944. Bottom row (L-R): Rev. Kogan Yoshizumi, Rev. Hozui Nakayama, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Enryo Shigefuji (Fresno, Calif.), Bishop Ninryo Nago, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shutetsu Uyenoyama, Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Yutetsu Matsui, unknown, unknown, Rev. Doro Kanda. Middle row (L-R): Rev. Dojin Ochi (Los Angeles), Rev. Ryuko Tachibana (Los Angeles, formerly of Hawaii), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri, Rev. Gendo Okawa, Rev. Suijo Kabashima, Rev. Tenran Mori, unknown, Rev. Ryuten Kashiwa, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Hakuai Oda, Rev. Taizen Imamura, Rev. Hosho Kurohira, Rev. Shunjo Shiratori, Rev. Bunpo Kuwatsuki (Los Angeles), unknown, Rev. Shodo Kawamura. Top row (L-R): Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato, Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, unknown, Rev. Kenju Ohtomo, unknown, Rev. Gikyo Kuchiba, Zenko Saigusa, Rev. Kodo Fujitani, Rev. Kenjo Ohara, Rev. Giko Abiko (Calif.), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi, unknown. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.

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Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (2nd), Rev. Zenkai Tatsuguchi (5th), Rev. Zenko Saigusa (6th). Row 2: Kazuyuki Kawano (2nd), Takeo Seike (3rd), Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (4th), Mankichi Miura (5th), Matsujiro Otani (7th), Rev. Kenjyo Ohara (8th), Rev. Daishin Ikejiri (9th). Row 3: Rev. Doro Kanda (2nd, with tie), Hirouemon Yamamoto (4th), Tsuruichi Sarae (6th), Rev. Tenran Mori (7th), Sukenoshin Nakano (1st fr R). Row 4: Riuichi Ipponsugi (2nd). JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection.

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Arrested: April 1942

Kilauea Military Camp, Hawaii Island

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Fourth Transfer Group: June 1942

This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth 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. 

Also sent on the same ship were six Issei women internees: Kiku Horibe, Miyuki Kawasaki, Yoshie Miyao, Yuki Miyao, Haru Tanaka, and Tsuta Yamane. The women were kept apart from the men and had a different internment sequence from them.

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

6月 1942 - 7月 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

7月 1942 - 3月 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

3月 1943 - 12月 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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

Arriving in the islands as a young Buddhist missionary in spring 1941, Kenjyo Ohara spent his first years in America under incarceration. He returned to Hawaii at the end of the war, serving at various temples for the next 40 years.