Group Media & Photos

Japanese language teachers. Tokiji Takei (2nd row, 2nd from R), Totaro Matsui (3rd row, 4th from L), Shinzaburo Sumida (4th row, 1st from R), Otokichi Ozaki (back row, 1st from L). JCCH/Tokiji Sojin Takei Collection.

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Honolulu Education Association Board, 31st year, 1966. Front Row: Tokiji Takei (1st from L), Yoshiharu Kodama (2nd from R). JCCH/Tokiji Sojin Takei Collection.

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強制収容所の場所

Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

Seventh Transfer Group: October 1942

This internee was sent in the Seventh Transfer Group of twenty-three Issei men aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds for incarceration in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family and others transferred for repatriation to Japan. 

Also in this transfer group were two Issei women: a nun, Kanzen Ito, and a physician, Ishiko Mori. The women were kept apart from the male internees and had different internment sequences from them. 

Angel Island Detention Facility, California

10月 1942

Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

10月 1942 - 6月 1943

Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

6月 1943 - 12月 1944

Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas

12月 1944 - 12月 1945

Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

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

Tokiji Takei's younger brother, Yoshinobu Takei, was inducted into the U.S. Army in December 1940 and was a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion. In October 1943, Yoshinobu Takei was killed in action in Italy.