Group Media & Photos
Shingon Buddhist ministers and supporters at the Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico, 1944. Front row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Ganta Sugimura (8th). Row 2: Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). Row 3: Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). Back row: Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Arrested: March 1942
Maui County Jail, Wailuku, Maui Island
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Twenty-three Issei men were sent aboard the U.S. Army transport ship the Ernest Hinds 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 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 confinement sequences from them.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
October 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
October 1942 - March 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
March 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.