Biography
Kentaro Hirashima was an Issei Honolulu resident and fish-store employee. JCCH records his birth year as 1880. His individual record documents arrest in April 1942, Honolulu Immigration Station and Sand Island custody, mainland transfer May 1942, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston in June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. The location or legal status between the stated Santa Fe end month and return month is not specified. 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/hirashima-kentaro
