Biography
Ryoichi Tanaka was an Issei Honolulu hardware-store owner and Japanese community business leader. JCCH records his birth year as 1877. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Honolulu Immigration Station and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer in May 1942, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston in June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-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/tanaka-ryoichi
Photo: JCCH/Riuichi Ipponsugi Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Bottom row, ninth from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/goto-mankichi . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
