Biography
Gikyo Kuchiba was a Honolulu Buddhist bishop of Honpa Hongwanji Mission. JCCH records December 1941 arrest and Sand Island detention, then mainland transfer February 1942. Listed US confinement includes Angel Island March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944 and Santa Fe April 1944-November 1945. The archive records repatriation to Japan November 1945. This was US wartime civilian incarceration; no individual criminal conviction is established by the archive. The record does not establish whether repatriation was voluntary or a present-day exile status. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/kuchiba-gikyo
Photo source: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi. Bishop Gikyo Kuchiba is third from left. With Rev. Hakuai Oda (first), Rev. Shinri Sarashina (second), and Rev. Josen Deme (fourth), in winter at Missoula or Santa Fe Internment Camp. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Portrait cropped from the source photograph; original photograph retained. Positions above refer to the original group photograph.
