Biography
Tetsuo Tanaka was an Issei Buddhist priest and Japanese language school principal at Kawailoa Soto Mission in Waialua, Oahu. JCCH records his birth year as 1911. His individual record documents March 1942 arrest, Honolulu Immigration Station March-April 1942, Sand Island April-May 1942, May 1942 mainland transfer, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943, Santa Fe June 1943-March 1944, Jerome March-May 1944, Tule Lake May 1944-January 1945 and Santa Fe January-December 1945. He returned aboard Shawnee in December 1945. JCCH describes parole to Jerome for family reunification, followed by revocation after reported participation in pro-Japanese demonstrations at Tule Lake. That report is not presented here as a criminal conviction. 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-tetsuo
