Group Media & Photos
Internees from Kauai at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row, kneeling and seated (L-R): Shinjiro Matayoshi (1st), Kenji Yoshiura (2nd), Ryozo Izutsu (3rd), Kaetsu Furuya (4th), Yukiyasu Sodetani (5th), Koshi Tatsuhara (6th), Tsuruzo Hasegawa (7th), Rev. Hironori Nishii (9th, on chair). Row 2, seated: Mankichi Miura (2nd, without tie), Takeo Seike (3rd), Kameo Tahara, Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (5th), Rev. Hiseki Miyasaki (6th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (7th), Yozaemon Yamamoto (8th), Zenzo Kisada (9th), Masaji Toyofuku (4th from R), Chiyomatsu Hamamura (3rd from R), Kazuto Yokota (1st from R). Row 3: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Sukenoshin Nakano (2nd), Kazuto Taketa (3rd), Rev. Shoyu Kitajima (4th), Rev. Gijo Ozawa (5th), Rev. Chiko Odate (6th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (7th, wearing hat), Isuke Horikawa (3rd from R), Enichi Saiki (2nd from R), Kyoichi Uyeda (1st from R). Back row: Kyushichi Hayashi (2nd), Kenichi Hataishi (4th), Rev. Kyojo Naitoh (5th), Kokichi Tsuji (6th), Katsutaro Yamasaki (7th), Meijiro Hayashi (3rd from R), Sunao Fujii (2nd from R), Isami Ueoka (1st from R). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Arrested: December 1941
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Thirty-nine men (mostly Issei) were sent on the fourth 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.
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 confinement sequence from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
June 1942 - July 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
July 1942 - June 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
June 1943 - April 1944
Jerome Relocation Center, Arkansas
April 1944 - June 1944
Gila River Relocation Center, Arizona
June 1944 - January 1945
Died in Camp: January 1945
Enichi Saiki died of tuberculosis after a two-month stay at the Rivers Community Hospital, not far from the Gila River camp. An attendant at the sugar plantation hospital in Kilauea, Kauai, Saiki had been feted just a few years before his arrest and incarceration for his 30 years of service to the local community.