Biography
Matsujiro Otani was individually identified as an internee held at Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico in a September 4, 1942 Provost Marshal General letter concerning the forwarding of internees’ baggage. This is a contemporary observation of actual wartime civilian confinement, not an admission or release date.
Matsujiro Otani was individually identified as an internee held at Lordsburg Internment Camp, New Mexico in a September 4, 1942 Provost Marshal General letter concerning the forwarding of internees’ baggage. This is a contemporary observation of actual wartime civilian confinement, not an admission or release date. Civilian wartime administrative internment; no individual criminal charge or conviction is stated. The source’s permanent-internment terminology describes an administrative classification, not a life sentence. The receipt date, when supplied, is a facility-transfer observation, not a verified first arrest or beginning of all custody. No physical release date, complete custody duration, present custody status, ethnicity or ideology is inferred.
Original Camp McCoy civilian internment records, PDF page 50.