Group Media & Photos
First meeting of Kauai Hongwanji missions. Koloa, Kauai, September 1936. Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (front row, 6th from L), Rev. Honi Ohye (1st row, 7th from L). JCCH/Gladys Naitoh Archival Collection.
Buddhist Ministers. Missoula Internment Camp, ca. 1943. Front Row (L-R): Rev. Konin Matano, Rev. Josen Deme, Rev. Yoshio Hino, Rev. Honi Ohye, Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba, Rev. Chikyoku Kikuchi, Rev. Shinri Sarashina, Rev. Shushin Matsubayashi, Rev. Jikai Yamasato. Back Row: Rev. Kenryu Hasegawa, Rev. Shoho Fujiie, Rev. Goki Tatsuguchi, Rev. Hakuai Oda, unknown, Rev. Suijo Kabashima. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection.
Arrested: December 1941
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
A group of 167 Hawaii men (mostly Issei) were sent on the second transfer ship for internment in U.S. Army and Department of Justice camps on the Mainland. Together, the men were sent from camp to camp.
In June 1943, this transfer group was split into two, with this group sent from Camp Livingston to Fort Missoula before being transferred to the Santa Fe Camp.
From there, some internees were paroled to War Relocation Authority camps, where they were reunited with family members. Others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
March 1942 - April 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
April 1942 - May 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
June 1942 - June 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
June 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
From his place of incarceration on the Mainland, Rev. Honi Ohye repatriated to Japan; his family remained in the islands.
Son Kenji Ohye, a student at the University of Hawaii, volunteered for the Hawaii Territorial Guard and later the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a group of college students who provided manual labor in support of the U.S. Army.
Six months after the war's end, the Ohye family in Hawaii learned of Honi Ohye's death in July 1945 from an American bombing attack on Fukui City.
In early 1946, Kenji Ohye was drafted into the U.S. Army.