Biography
Jinshichi Tokairin was an Issei Honolulu businessman, owner of Tohoku Hotel and Nuuanu Onsen Teahouse, and an officer of Japanese community organizations including the Honolulu Japanese Hotel Association. JCCH records his birth year as 1888. The archive also documents his leadership of a 1938 association trip to China, Manchuria and Korea supporting Japanese imperial forces in occupied territories. His individual custody record lists Sand Island, mainland transfer in February 1942, Angel Island March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 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 leadership. No individual criminal conviction or judicial sentence is established by this record. Exact arrest and release days are not established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tokairin-jinshichi
Photo: JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Third row, third 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.
