Biography
Richard Yoshikazu Matsui was a Honolulu Japanese American and the nephew of Totaro and Tatsuko Sato Matsui. His individual JCCH record documents November 1944 departure from Hawaii aboard Matsonia to join family members in mainland internment, confinement at Crystal City Family Internment Camp, Texas, and December 1945 return to Honolulu aboard Shawnee. His entry into family confinement is distinct from his uncle Totaro’s December 1941 arrest. The archive does not establish an individual criminal conviction, birth date or exact Crystal City admission and release days. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/matsui-richard-yoshikazu