Biography
Totaro Matsui was an Issei Pacific Bank manager living in Honolulu. JCCH records December 1941 arrest and Sand Island detention, followed by mainland transfer aboard U.S. Grant in February 1942. Listed confinement includes Angel Island March 1942, Camp McCoy March-May 1942, Camp Forrest May-June 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943, Fort Missoula June 1943-April 1944, Santa Fe April-December 1944 and Crystal City December 1944-December 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Shawnee in December 1945. This case belongs to US wartime civilian incarceration of Hawaii residents of Japanese ancestry; no individual criminal conviction is established by the cited archive. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/matsui-totaro
Photo: JCCH/Pat Saiki Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Back row, fourth from left). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/chikuma-masayuki . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
The original May 1, 1942 Camp McCoy civilian-internee roster individually records Totaro Matsui, serial ISN-HJ-142-(Ci), as permanently interned at the camp after transfer from Fort McDowell, California. This supplies a contemporaneous individual custody reference for the existing wartime chronology. May 1 is a roster observation, not an inferred first admission or release. The historical internment serial is not a modern BOP register number.
