Biography
Shizuko Tanaka was an Issei salesclerk from Waialua, Oahu, and the wife of Kazuaki Tanaka. JCCH gives her birth year as approximately 1907. Her individual record documents departure from Hawaii in March 1945, Crystal City confinement March-December 1945 and return to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. Her own confinement timeline is distinct from the April 1942 arrest and earlier camp detention of her husband. 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-shizuko
