Biography
Wahei Oka was a Honolulu barbershop owner and a priest of Chowado, a Shingon Buddhist sect. JCCH records his birth year as 1888. His individual record documents arrest in December 1942, Sand Island confinement January-March 1943, Honouliuli March-July 1943, mainland transfer July 1943, Sharp Park July-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 1943-October 1945. He returned to Honolulu aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. His detention was part of US wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry; the archive does not establish an individual criminal conviction. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/oka-wahei
