Biography
Tomiko Roberta Nakano was a Nisei resident of Makaweli, Kauai, and a daughter of Sukenoshin and Tsuchito Nakano. JCCH records her birth year as 1917. Her individual record documents mainland transfer aboard Lurline in December 1942 and Jerome confinement January-September 1943, followed by a listing for Chicago, Illinois. She returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The Chicago listing does not establish camp detention or continued confinement through her Hawaii return. Her own timeline is distinct from the longer camp confinement of other family members. 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/nakano-tomiko-roberta
