Group Media & Photos
Internees from Kauai. Santa Fe Internment Camp, taken between June 1943 and March 1944. Bottom Row (L-R): Setsugo Togioka (2nd), Koshi Tatsuhara (3rd), Isamu Ueoka (4th), Osuke Shigemoto (5th), Torao Iseri (8th), Rev. Ichiro Uyeda (9th). 2nd Row: Rev. Kakichi Okamoto (1st), Rev. Takao Ama (2nd), Kyoichi Uyeda (3rd), Zenkichi Morita (5th), Ikuzo Kuniyuki (6th), Kenichi Hataishi (8th), Kazuto Taketa (9th). 3rd Row: Sunao Fujii (1st), Mankichi Miura (2nd), Kazuto Yokota (3rd), Takeo Seike (4th), Masaji Toyofuku (5th), Shinjiro Matayoshi (6th), Shizuma Tanji (7th), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (8th), Yonezo Kanja (9th), Zenzo Kisada (10th), Ishimatsu Shintani (11th). Top Row: Junzo Mashita (3rd), Jukichi Inouye (5th), Kenji Yoshiura (6th), Kazumi Matsumoto (9th), Gengo Honda (10th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Arrested: December 1941
Waimea Jail, Kauai Island
Wailua County Jail, Kauai Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 166 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the second 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. This internee was in a sub-group of Second Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
3月 1942 - 4月 1942
Fort Sill Internment Camp, Oklahoma
4月 1942 - 5月 1942
Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana
6月 1942 - 6月 1943
Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana
6月 1943 - 4月 1944
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
4月 1944 - 10月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.
An immigrant from Hiroshima Prefecture, Ishimatsu Shintani was a ranch hand and beekeeper at the Robinson Ranch on Niihau Island. A resident there for more than thirty years, he was married to a Native Hawaiian woman and was the father of eight children. He was the only Japanese resident on the island until the arrival of Yoshio and Irene Umeno Harada in the late 1930s.
When a Japanese aviator crash-landed on Niihau on December 7, 1941, Shintani became involved in the chaotic events of the ensuing days, which resulted in the deaths of the pilot and Yoshio Harada. Shintani was arrested and judged to have aided the pilot against the interests of the United States and was thus ordered interned. Also arrested and incarcerated was Irene Umeno Harada, one of only six Hawaii Japanese women to be held at the Honouliuli Internment Camp on Oahu.