Biography
Masayuki Chikuma was an Issei Honolulu resident, entertainer and manager of Toyo Theater. JCCH records his birth year as 1902 and describes his prewar work narrating silent Japanese films. His individual record documents arrest in February 1942, Honolulu Immigration Station and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer March 1942, Angel Island March-April 1942, Fort Sill April-May 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944 and Santa Fe April 1944-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The archive describes his Shinto priesthood as postwar work, not his prewar occupation. 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/chikuma-masayuki
Photo: JCCH/Pat Saiki Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Front row, second from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/chikuma-masayuki . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
