Biography
Jitsuryu Tanaka was an Issei resident of Lahaina, Maui, and a Buddhist priest of the Shingon Mission. JCCH records his birth year as 1912. His individual record documents arrest in March 1942, Maui County Jail and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer aboard Ernest Hinds in October 1942, Angel Island in October 1942, Lordsburg October 1942-March 1943 and Santa Fe March 1943-December 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 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/tanaka-jitsuryu
Photo: JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Back row, second from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tanaka-kazuaki . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
