Biography
Richard Hideo Tanaka was a Nisei child from Waialua, Oahu, and the son of Kazuaki and Shizuko Tanaka. JCCH gives his birth year as approximately 1928. His individual record documents departure from Hawaii in March 1945, Crystal City confinement March-December 1945 and return to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. His own timeline is distinct from the earlier arrest and detention of his father. He is distinct from Hideo Tanaka, the Honolulu newspaper employee born in 1903. 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/tanaka-richard-hideo
