Biography
Hisashi Fukuhara was an Issei barber-shop owner from Honokaa, Hawaii, who assisted local residents with the Japanese Consulate. JCCH records his birth year as 1897 and the pen name Fukuhara Getsugaku. His own record lists Kilauea Military Camp before Sand Island. His individual timeline documents arrest in December 1941, mainland transfer March 1942, Angel Island March-April 1942, Fort Sill April-May 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944 and Santa Fe April 1944-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian detention in the context of Japanese ancestry and community roles. No individual criminal conviction or judicial sentence is established; exact arrest and release days are not documented. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/fukuhara-hisashi-getsugaku
