Biography
Tamio Nakamura was an Issei resident of Haiku, Maui, and an appliance-store salesman. JCCH records his birth year as 1891. His own record documents Maui County Jail detention, transfer to Oahu in June 1942, Honolulu Immigration Station, Sand Island June-August 1942 and mainland transfer in August 1942. Angel Island and Lordsburg are listed for August 1942; Santa Fe is documented June 1943-October 1945. The intervening chronology is not specified. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. The individual archive record establishes no criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest or release day. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/nakamura-tamio
