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 May Day (ddr-csujad-55-1475)

Scrapbook page containing three black and white photographs of the German May Day celebration at the Crystal City Department of Justice Internment Camp. Title from caption. From the Mary F. Clark scrapbook, "Before I Forget, 1942-1947," page 118. See also sac_jaac_1334 through sac_jaac_1529. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1475/

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/

img Santa Fe poetry group (ddr-densho-116-1)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-116-1/

img Sumo wrestling exhibition (ddr-densho-118-9)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-118-9/

img Santa Fe internees (ddr-densho-123-2)

First row, fourth from left is Mr. Mamizuka of Seattle, Washington.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-123-2/

doc Envelopes for censored letters (ddr-densho-157-173)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-173/

doc Envelope for censored letters (ddr-densho-157-174)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-174/

doc Department of Justice hearing notice (ddr-densho-157-200)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-200/

img Detainees in Santa Fe internment camp (ddr-densho-166-8)

Kunizo Mayeno is in the back row, fifth from the left.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-8/

doc Letter from an Issei man to his wife (ddr-densho-166-12)

This letter was sent from Kunizo Mayeno in the Lordsburg internment camp, New Mexico, to his wife Masaye at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-12/

img Tennis team (ddr-densho-200-2)

Front middle: Shinjiro Morita.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-200-2/

img Group photo in Santa Fe (ddr-densho-200-1)

Extreme right, back row, Shinjiro Morita. Front second left, Kikuzo Uyeminami.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-200-1/

img Tennis team (ddr-densho-200-3)

Front, second from right: Shinjiro Morita.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-200-3/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Eijiro Suzuki (ddr-densho-223-62)

A letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care while Eijiro Suzuki was in the hospital at Santa Fe.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-62/

img Men and women in traditional Japanese clothing performing in a play (ddr-densho-223-45)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-45/

img Nurse with two men in medical uniforms (ddr-densho-223-27)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-27/

img Men in casual clothing posing with Henrietta Schoen, signed on reverse (ddr-densho-223-51)

Caption on reverse: "To Miss. H. Schoen; Yasukichi Yasumura; Toyokichi Okumura; Yasabiro Saiki; Tatsuo Nakaji; Seiyo Yuki; Mantaro Ninomiya; [illegible]; Seijuburo M[?]; Genko Saigusa; Shigeichi Nakamora; Shijiro K[?]; Tom [illegible]; Masatana Mitani; Nakomura Chohochiro; Dr. S Furugachi; Rev. D. Tana; Noboji Tokushiro; [illegible]; Keizo Wadu; Hiroshi Suzoki; Gensaku Koizumi; K. Sakagami; Jamie [illegible]; Kanekichi Takido."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-51/