Biography
Kazuto Taketa was an Issei insurance agent from Waimea, Kauai. JCCH records his birth year as 1898. His individual record documents arrest in May 1942, Wailua County Jail in Lihue, Sand Island July-August 1942, mainland transfer August 1942, Angel Island in August 1942, Lordsburg custody without individual dates 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/taketa-kazuto
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Third row, third from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/kitajima-shoyu-masao . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
