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Gengo Honda

AKA: Genzo Honda; 本田源吾
Released
Date of birth:1884
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Hawaii
Time Imprisoned:
2 Years 8 Months
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Gengo Honda

Biography

Gengo Honda, also recorded as Genzo Honda, was the Kauai bureau manager of Nippu Jiji newspaper and a resident of Kapaa Heights. JCCH records March 1943 arrest, Kalaheo Stockade March-July 1943, Honouliuli July-December 1943, Sharp Park December 1943-January 1944 and Santa Fe January 1944-October 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. His case forms part of 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/honda-gengo-genzo

Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Back row, tenth from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/honda-gengo-genzo . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.

Case

Arrested: March 1943
Incarcerated: March 1943
Released: November 1945
Sentence: Administrative US wartime civilian confinement following March 1943 arrest, with listed camp intervals ending October 1945 and Hawaii homecoming November 1945. Exact custody days, imposed judicial term and measured continuous duration unverified. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/honda-gengo-genzo