Biography
Tomoji Matsumura was an Issei Hilo businessman, president of Hilo Fertilizer Company and leader of Japanese community associations. JCCH records his birth year as 1873. His individual record documents arrest in December 1941, Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer March 1942, Angel Island March-April 1942, Fort Sill April-May 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian 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/matsumura-tomoji
