Biography
Daizo Sumida was a Honolulu Issei businessman, president of Pacific Bank and T. Sumida & Co. JCCH records December 1941 arrest and Sand Island confinement, then February 1942 mainland transfer aboard USS U.S. Grant. 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-December 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Shawnee in December 1945. This case belongs to US wartime civilian incarceration of Hawaii residents of Japanese ancestry; no individual criminal conviction is established by the archive. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/sumida-daizo
Photo: JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Bottom row, eighth 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.
The original May 1, 1942 Camp McCoy civilian-internee roster individually records Daizo Sumida, serial ISN-HJ-59-(Ci), as permanently interned at the camp after transfer from Fort McDowell, California. This supplies a contemporaneous individual custody reference for the existing wartime chronology. May 1 is a roster observation, not an inferred first admission or release. The historical internment serial is not a modern BOP register number.
