Biography
Kinori Nishino was an Issei laundry-shop owner from Lahaina, Maui. JCCH records his birth year as 1905. His individual record documents arrest in November 1942, Haiku detention in December 1942, Sand Island December 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer in March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 1943-December 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 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/nishino-kinori
