Group Media & Photos
Santa Fe Internment Camp, ca. 1943-1945. Bottom, Row 2 (L-R): Itsuo Hamada (11th), Wataru Takeshita (12th), Sadashichi Miura (13th/4th from R), Iwaki Watanabe (16th/1st). 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/7th from R), Torao Iseri (17th/5th), Tomoji Matsumura (18th/4th), Toyoki Kimura (21st/1st). 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/ 7th from R), Kentaro Hirashima (13th/6th), Ishima Kusano (14th/5th), Zenzo Kisada (15th/4th), Tatsuji Morimoto (16th/3rd), Tatsuo Ito (17th/2nd). Row 6: Hideki Takahashi (2nd), Hisatoshi Tanisaki (10th), Takashi Hamada (11th), Kyujiro Nakashima (13th/5th from R), Sokutaro Ashihara (16th/2nd). Row 7: Nejio Sonoda (13th), Takichi Kinoshita (14th), Yaichi Yamamoto (20th/3rd from R). Row 8: Kunitaro Takeuchi (2nd), Satoru Hirae (9th). JCCH/Tamio Nakamura Collection.
Arrested: January 1943
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
January 1943 - March 1943
Honouliuli Internment Camp, Oahu Island
March 1943 - July 1943
A group of thirty-four Issei men were sent in the ninth transfer group for internment 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, others were transferred for repatriation to Japan.
Sharp Park Detention Station, California
July 1943 - August 1943
Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico
August 1943 - December 1945
Returned to Hawaii: December 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.