Biography
Katsuichi Tanaka was an Issei storekeeper from Kahuku, Oahu. JCCH records his birth year as 1884. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Sand Island detention, mainland transfer in February 1942, Angel Island in March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-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/tanaka-katsuichi
Photo: JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Second row, leftmost person.). 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.
