Biography
Itsuo Hamada was an Issei Kahului resident, Nippu Jiji newspaper branch manager and owner of Hamada Hotel. JCCH records his birth year as 1899. His own record lists Maui County Jail before Sand Island. The archive states that a contemplated July 1941 espionage-act prosecution of consular agents including Hamada did not proceed; this is not a conviction. 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/hamada-itsuo
