Biography
Sukenoshin Nakano, also recorded as Yunoshin Nakano, was an Issei sugar-plantation employee from Makaweli, Kauai. JCCH records his birth year as 1891. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Wailua County Jail, Oahu transfer in June 1942, Honolulu Immigration Station and Sand Island custody, mainland transfer June 1942, Angel Island June-July 1942, Lordsburg July 1942-June 1943, Santa Fe June-December 1943, Jerome December 1943-June 1944 and Amache June 1944-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. 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/nakano-sukenoshin
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Third row, second from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/kitajima-shoyu-masao . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
