Biography
Konin Matano was a Buddhist priest and Japanese language school principal at Waianae Hongwanji Mission. JCCH records December 1941 arrest and Sand Island detention, February 1942 mainland transfer, Angel Island March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944, Santa Fe April 1944-March 1945 and Crystal City March-December 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Shawnee December 1945. This was US wartime civilian incarceration; no individual criminal conviction is established by the archive. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/matano-konin
Photo: JCCH/Rev. Hakuai Oda Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Front row, ninth from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/goto-mankichi . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
The original May 1, 1942 Camp McCoy civilian-internee roster individually records Konin Matano, serial ISN-HJ-165-(Ci), as permanently interned at the camp after transfer from Fort McDowell, California. This supplies a contemporaneous individual custody reference for the existing wartime chronology. May 1 is a roster observation, not an inferred first admission or release. The historical internment serial is not a modern BOP register number.
