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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: May 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was among 39 men (mostly Issei) who were sent on the fourth 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. 

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 internment sequence from them.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

6月 1942 - 7月 1942


Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico

7月 1942 - 3月 1943


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

3月 1943 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Brothers Zenkai and Goki Tatsuguchi came to Honolulu in the 1920s as missionaries of the independent Shinshu Kyokai Buddhist Mission. In the 1930s, a dispute errupted among the mission faithful, and the Tatsuguchis found themselves on opposing sides of the religious schism. After the war, Zenkai Tatsuguchi returned to Honolulu, where he continued in religious service.