Biography
Tomoaki Nakamura was an Issei resident of Honolulu and a salesman at Hakubundo Book Store. JCCH records his birth year as 1898. His own record documents Sand Island detention and mainland transfer in February 1942, Angel Island in March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Santa Fe June 1943-March 1944, Jerome March-May 1944 and Tule Lake May 1944-November 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 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-tomoaki
