Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico. Front row 2, seated (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th), Iwaki Watanabe (16th). Row 3, half row: Akimasa Watanabe (6th), Shigeru Yano (8th). Row 4: Tamezo Takemori (1st), Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tamio Nakamura (5th), Hisashi Fukuhara (7th), Mitsutaka Horiuchi (9th), Toramatsu Matsumoto (10th), Yasuyuki Mizutari (15th), Torao Iseri (17th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th), Toyoki Kimura (21st). Row 5: Kokichi Nakamura (4th), Yoshio Yoshioka (5th), Kiyoshi Yonemura (6th), Gengo Honda (7th), Junzo Mashita (8th), Ushitaro Yonezaki (10th), Kinori Nishino (11th), Chikashi Nakayama (12th), Kentaro Hirashima (13th), Ishima Kusano (14th), Zenzo Kisada (15th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th), Tatsuo Ito (17th). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th). Back row: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura Collection.
Internment Camp Bon dance group, July 1944. Row 2 (L-R): Shigeru Yano (5th). Row 4: Rev. Kodo Fujitani (8th), Hego Fuchino (9th). Top row: Rev. Ninryo Nago (4th), Rev. Nisshu Kobayashi (6th). JCCH/Joan Oya Collection.
"Broadcast Department" members, Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1944-1945. Bottom row (L-R): Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeru Yano (3rd), Shigeki Mizumoto (4th), Yuichi Nakaichi (5th). Middle row: Minoru Murakami (2nd), Genpachi Tsushima (3rd), Kumaji Furuya (6th). Top row: Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Rev. Yutetsu Matsui (3rd), Totaro Matsui (4th), Rev. Kodo Fujitani (5th). JCCH/Pat Saiki Archival Collection.
Kabuki at Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 2 (L-R): Sawajiro Ozaki (4th). Row 3: Tsuneichi Yamamoto (1st), Masayuki Chikuma (2nd), Shigeki Mizumoto (3rd), Genpachi Tsushima (4th), Shoho Fujiie (5th), Shigeru Yano (6th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (7th). Back row: Zenkichi Morita (1st), Kiyoshi James Yonemura (5th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Cast and crew of “Hiroshima miyage to Tamazo” (Hiroshima souvenir and Tamazo), Santa Fe Internment Camp, performed in March 1945. The script for this drama was likely written by an internee. 2nd row from bottom (L-R): Shigeru Yano (10th). 3rd row (L-R): Shigeki Mizumoto (2nd), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (3rd), Masayuki Chikuma (4th), Genpachi Tsushima (7th), Katsuichi Kawamoto (8th). JCCH/Patsy Saiki Archival Collection.
The Cross of the Martyrs, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Front row (L-R): Matsujiro Otani (1st). Back row: Shigeru Yano (2nd), Toramatsu Matsumoto (8th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Santa Fe Internment Camp. Row 1 (L-R): Toramatsu Matsumoto (1st), Tsuneichi Yamamoto (2nd). Row 2 (seated): Yozaemon Yamamoto (5th), Yuichi Nakaichi (8th/2nd fr R). Row 3: Zenkichi Morita (3rd), Kiyoshi Yonemura (9th/3rd fr R). Top row: Hironori Nishii (1st), Sunao Fujii (6th). JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection.
Men from Kumamoto Prefecture at Santa Fe Internment Camp. Front row (L-R): Kazuyuki Kawano (1st), Toramatsu Matsumoto (3rd). Back row: Kiyoshi James Yonemura (3rd), Genpachi Tsushima (4th), Shigeru Yano (5th). JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection.
Arrested: November 1942
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
December 1942 - March 1943
Forty-two Issei men were sent in the eighth transfer group 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.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
March 1943 - August 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1943 - October 1945
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.