Biography
Joei Oi was chief priest of Nichiren Hommon Mission and principal of Rissho Japanese Language School in Honolulu. JCCH records his birth year as 1896. His individual record establishes Sand Island custody and 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-June 1944 and Santa Fe June 1944-October 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The archive does not give his arrest date or establish an individual criminal conviction. His detention occurred in the context of US wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/oi-joei
Photo: JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Third row, sixth from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/goto-mankichi . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
