Biography
Kokichi Nakamura was an Issei mail carrier from Wailuku, Maui. JCCH records his birth year as 1887. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Maui County Jail and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer in March 1942, Angel Island March-April 1942, Fort Sill April-May 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Kooskia June 1943-June 1944 and Santa Fe June 1944-November 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The archive notes that his son Shigemi served with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, judicial sentence or exact release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/nakamura-kokichi
