Biography
Florence Hiroko Matano was a Nisei Japanese American from Waianae, Oahu, and a daughter of Konin and Tamako Matano. JCCH records her birth year as 1931 without an exact date. Her own archive record documents departure from Hawaii in March 1945 to join confined family members, Sharp Park detention that month, Crystal City family confinement March-December 1945 and return to Honolulu aboard Shawnee in December 1945. This was administrative wartime confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry, rather than a documented individual criminal conviction. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/matano-florence-hiroko
