Biography
Junzo Mashita was an Issei sugar-plantation foreman from Koloa, Kauai. JCCH records his birth year as 1889. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Wailua County Jail in Lihue and Sand Island detention, 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 confinement 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/mashita-junzo
