[5] While at university, Fukuda had a relapse of tuberculosis he had contracted as a child and turned to the Konko Faith for guidance.
[11] He led 5:30 morning services for Konko practitioners everyday, and regularly gave speeches to the camp, giving him considerable influence with both internees and soldiers.
They were shot at point blank range, and "the other internees in Lordsburg were forced to dig the graves of the two dead men".
Fukuda wrote letters to the Spanish Consul and the Department of Justice, the branch controlling the Lordsburg Camp, demanding an investigation.
[14] Fukuda routinely sent letters to these groups, along with the Red Cross and camp officials, when he saw mistreatment or other acts not in accordance with the Geneva Convention, which gave guidelines for prisoner of war treatment.
Topaz was a relocation center run by the Department of the Interior in which Group B and C, or less "dangerous", Japanese-Americans were imprisoned.
[18] Many families had members in the Department of Justice Camps such as Lordsburg, and the separation caused psychological harm to a good deal involved.
In Crystal City specifically, Fukuda requested to the government to supply a new tuberculosis drug to the camp hospital.
[23] Due to his importance in the camp, as well as his influence feared by the US government, Fukuda was not released from imprisonment until September 29, 1947, over two years after the Japanese surrender of World War II.
[24] After the war ended, Fukuda stayed in Crystal City, serving as a minister, school principal, printer, and interpreter among other jobs.
Fukuda offered to house them at his church in San Francisco until they found suitable employment, solving the matter.
[27] Fukuda was still an important and active member in San Francisco's Japantown, and he witnessed the struggles that Japanese-Americans went through to reclaim lost properties, apply for or regain citizenship, and generally rebuild the lives they had before the war.
[28] He requested a change to the Evacuation Claims Act of 1948, which theoretically restored all lost property to Japanese-Americans, but was largely a failure.
He included personal experiences, such as the loss of his fourth son Yoshiro, who died in 1946 at Crystal City after a battle with kidney disease.