Biography
Hakuai Oda was a Buddhist priest and Japanese language school principal at Aiea Hongwanji Mission. JCCH records December 1941 arrest and Sand Island detention, February 1942 mainland transfer, 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-October 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Yarmouth November 1945 and resumed his ministry at Aiea after the war. This was US wartime civilian incarceration; no individual criminal conviction is established by the archive. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/oda-hakuai
Photo source: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi. Rev. Hakuai Oda, shortly after arrival in Hawaii, circa 1924. JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Portrait cropped from the source photograph; original photograph retained.
