Department of Justice camps

More than 5,500 Japanese immigrants (Issei) were arrested by the FBI following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most were sent first to temporary Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention stations and then transferred to Department of Justice (DOJ) internment camps, where they waited to appear before the Alien Enemy Hearing Board. These hearings determined whether the Issei would remain in the internment camps or be "released" to the War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps. After the hearings, most of the Issei were sent to U.S. Army internment camps. The U.S. Army, charged with detaining military prisoners of war (POWs), then returned the Issei internees to DOJ control. The DOJ camps also interned Italian and German nationals and Japanese Latin Americans. Most of the DOJ internment camps held only men who had been separated from their families, but three camps housed single women and families. The camps were run by the INS, part of the Department of Justice.

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img Two nurses standing with a man in medical uniform (ddr-densho-223-25)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-25/

img Men in white caps and aprons posing (ddr-densho-223-34)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-34/

img Crowd of people waiting with their luggage (ddr-densho-223-5)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-5/

doc Proverb [?] written in Japanese and English (ddr-densho-223-69)

Caption on front: "Faith and Love hath no enemy in the World. Rev. Takie Okumura."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-69/

img Two men standing in front of door with sign in Japanese (ddr-densho-223-15)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-15/

img Man in apron (ddr-densho-223-17)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-17/

img Nurse with unbuttoned cloak posing (ddr-densho-223-26)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-26/

img Three nurses in cloaks sitting with a man in a suit (ddr-densho-223-21)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-21/

img A man in medical uniform (ddr-densho-223-28)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-28/

img A man handing a drink to Henrietta Schoen (ddr-densho-223-18)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-18/

img Man and nurse next to a prep table (ddr-densho-223-37)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-37/

doc Letter to Henrietta Shoen from Riuichi Ipponsugi (ddr-densho-223-77)

Letter regarding monthly reports.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-77/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Kamematsu Kimoto (ddr-densho-223-75)

Letter talking about moving the Rowher and being reunited with family.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-75/

doc First Group of Coast Japs Interned in N.M. (March 15, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-689)

The Seattle Daily Times, March 15, 1942, p. 8

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-689/

doc 40 Japanese Taken From Kin, Interned (February 7, 1942) (ddr-densho-56-604)

The Seattle Daily Times, February 7, 1942, p. 1

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-604/

doc Letter from Yoshihiko Matsuura to Kiyoko Noda, April 30, 1949 (ddr-csujad-10-3)

A letter from Yoshihiko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas, to his grandmother, Kiyoko Noda, in Lima, Peru. He includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp, including the event on the Emperor's birthday [April 29] and a play performed in the camp. He details the Boy Scouts …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-10-3/

doc Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Kikuko Noda, January 26, 1945 (ddr-csujad-10-2)

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee at the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her mother, Kikuko Noda in Lima, Peru. In the letter, she describes the celebration of the New Year [1945] at the internment camp and expresses her appreciation for the gifts sent by her mother. According to her letter, it appears that Kiyoko …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-10-2/

doc Letter from Kiyoko Matsuura to Mizuko Noda, September 5, 1944 (ddr-csujad-10-1)

A letter from Kiyoko Matsuura, an internee in the Crystal City Internment Camp, to her sister in Lima Peru. In the letter, she includes updates on day to day life in the Crystal City camp and expresses her appreciation for the money sent by her father. Kiyoko states that she is anxiously waiting for a ship …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-10-1/

img Camp No. 30 (ddr-csujad-56-312)

Camp No. 30: Missoula, Montana, U.S.A. logo. The original image is housed with the Sonoma County Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), and was borrowed for digitization courtesy of the JACL. This image belongs to a group of images related to the Akutagawa family. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-56-312/

img Santa Fe, New Mexico [internees] (ddr-csujad-56-323)

Internees in work clothes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Included is a typed list of names and hometowns: Kakigi (Sebastopol); Okamura, Sueichi (San Francisco); Matsumoto (Petaluma); Yokoyama, Rokuzaemon (Sebastopol); Sugioka (Petaluma); Yoshizawa, Seizo (Petaluma); Ito, Hichijiro (Sebastopol); Iba; Kimura (Santa Rosa); Kobuke (Sebastopol); Akutagawa, Kiyoshi (Sebastopol); Kai (Santa Rosa); Nagase (Santa Rosa); Udo, Tsunejiro (San Francisco). …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-56-323/