Biography
Kiyoko Chinen was a Nisei resident of Naalehu, Hawaii, and the wife of Takahiko Chinen. JCCH records her birth year as 1912. Her individual record documents Lurline mainland transfer in December 1942, Jerome confinement January 1943-May 1944, Tule Lake May 1944-November 1945 and return to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. Her own timeline is distinct from the July 1942 arrest and earlier mainland detention of her husband. After the war she hosted and produced Okinawan-language radio programs for almost 40 years according to JCCH. This was administrative US wartime family 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/chinen-kiyoko
