Biography
Kazuaki Tanaka was an Issei storekeeper from Waialua, Oahu, and a participant in the development of the House of Mitsukoshi department store. JCCH records his birth year as 1903. His individual record documents arrest in April 1942, Honolulu Immigration Station, Sand Island April-May 1942, mainland transfer in May 1942, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston in June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943, Santa Fe June 1943-March 1945 and Crystal City March-December 1945, where he reunited with family under confinement. 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-kazuaki
Photo: JCCH/Usaburo Katamoto Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Row 3, fifth 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.
