Biography
Hideo Tanaka was an Issei resident of Honolulu and an employee of Hawaii Hochi Newspaper. JCCH records his birth year as 1903. His individual record documents Honolulu Immigration Station detention, Sand Island July-August 1942, mainland transfer in August 1942, Angel Island in August 1942, Lordsburg August 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-December 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. His record does not provide an arrest month. This was administrative US wartime civilian detention 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/tanaka-hideo
Photo: JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Top row, ninth 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.
