Biography
Ushitaro Yonezaki, also recorded as Ushitaro Yonesaki, was an Issei Honolulu innkeeper. JCCH records his birth year as 1885. His individual record documents arrest in March 1942, Sand Island detention, mainland transfer May 1942, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston in June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945 and died in 1949, after his return. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence or exact arrest, release or death day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/yonezaki-ushitaro
