Biography
Toramatsu Matsumoto was an Issei Honolulu resident and Shinto priest at Kato Shrine. JCCH records his birth year as 1872. His individual record documents arrest in October 1942, Sand Island October 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 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/matsumoto-toramatsu
