Biography
Theodore Takashi Chinen, later known as entertainer Teddy Tanaka, was a Nisei child from Naalehu, Hawaii, born in 1941 according to JCCH. His individual record documents Lurline mainland transfer in December 1942, Jerome confinement January 1943-May 1944, Tule Lake May 1944-November 1945 and Hawaii return aboard Shawnee in December 1945. JCCH describes his entry with his mother to reunite with his detained father Takahiko. His own timeline does not inherit his father July 1942 arrest or earlier detention. This was administrative US wartime family 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/chinen-theodore-takashi
