Biography
Kanji Tanaka was an Issei resident of Honolulu and a compositor for Nippu Jiji Newspaper, born in 1886 according to JCCH. His individual record documents arrest in October 1942, Sand Island October 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer in March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. JCCH identifies Japanese ancestry as the detention context. This was administrative US wartime civilian detention. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tanaka-kanji
Photo: JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Second row, ninth 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.
