Biography
Ichiro Genishi was an Issei resident of Waipahu, Oahu, and church director of Tenri Aloha Mission. JCCH records his birth year as 1897. His individual record documents arrest in August 1943, Honouliuli detention, mainland transfer in December 1943, Sharp Park December 1943-January 1944 and Santa Fe January 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. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/genishi-ichiro
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Front row, second from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/genishi-ichiro . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
