Biography
Hatsuko Joyce Nakano was a Nisei resident of Makaweli, Kauai, a sugar-plantation boarding-house cook and a daughter of Sukenoshin and Tsuchito Nakano. JCCH records her birth year as 1920. Her individual record documents mainland transfer aboard Lurline in December 1942, Jerome confinement January 1943-June 1944 and Amache confinement June-August 1944, followed by a listing for Chicago, Illinois. She returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The Chicago listing does not establish camp detention or continued confinement through her Hawaii return. The archive records her postwar marriage to Norio Funamoto. This was administrative US wartime family confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/nakano-hatsuko-joyce
