Biography
Kiyoshi James Yonemura was an Issei Honolulu resident, building contractor and proprietor of Moiliili Building and Materials. JCCH records his birth year as 1900. His individual record documents arrest in December 1942, Sand Island December 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 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/yonemura-kiyoshi-james
Photo: JCCH/Matsumoto-Tsushima Family Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Back row, third from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/kawano-kazuyuki . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
