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Internees originally from Ehime Prefecture. Santa Fe Internment Camp, July 1943. Hawaii internees: Row 1 (L-R): Kazuaki Tanaka (2nd), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (4th). Row 2: Wasaburo Uranaka (4th), Takeo Seike (9th). Row 3: Usaburo Katamoto (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Shingon ministers and supporters. Santa Fe Internment Camp, 1944. Front Row (L-R): Manjiro Konno (1st), Kanekichi Yanagihara (2nd), Rev. Shodo Kawamura (5th), Teiji Kawamata (7th), Ganta Sugimura (8th). 2nd Row (L-R): Ryozo Izutsu (1st), Masasuke Ishikawa (2nd), Rev. Myoshu Sasai (3rd), Rev. Kakuho Asaoka (4th), Rev. Tetsuei Katoda (6th), Sadaichi (Teiichi) Suzuki (7th), Rev. Kakuo Shiba (8th), Rev. Yuko Nonomura (10th), Takazo Arita (11th), Takejiro Nakagawa (12th). 3rd Row (L-R): Usaburo Katamoto (3rd), Kazuaki Tanaka (5th), Masaichi Kobayashi (6th). Back row (L-R): Rev. Hosho Kurohira (1st), Rev. Jitsuryu Tanaka (2nd), Aisuke Kuniyuki (3rd), Genzo Suzuki (4th). JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection.
Arrested: April 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
This internee was among 109 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the third transfer ship for internment 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 or transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Angel Island Detention Facility, California
6月 1942
Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp, Texas
6月 1942
Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1942 - 6月 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
6月 1943 - 3月 1945
Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas
Reunited with family
3月 1945 - 12月 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.
Waialua businessman Kazuaki Tanaka was in late 1940 among a group of prominent community leaders behind the development of a modern multi-story department store in downtown Honolulu called The House of Mitsukoshi. Modeled on its well-known Tokyo namesake, it carried the latest in Japanese home goods and boasted the first escalator in the territory.
Other executives involved in the venture included president Lawrence T. Kagawa and directors Shigeru Horita and Eiichi Kishida, who also were interned with the outbreak of war.
The Mitsukoshi property was seized by the federal government in 1942, and the department store converted into the headquarters for the American USO.