Biography
Naoichi Seto was an Issei Honolulu resident, priest of Tenri Oahu Church and barber shop owner. JCCH records his birth year as 1901. His individual record documents arrest in June 1943, Honolulu Immigration Station detention, Honouliuli July-December 1943, mainland transfer in December 1943, Sharp Park December 1943-January 1944 and Santa Fe January 1944-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian detention 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/seto-naoichi
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Back row, first from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/genishi-ichiro . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
