Biography
Wataru Takeshita was an Issei Honolulu resident and teacher at Toyo Gakuen Japanese Language School. JCCH records his birth year as 1902. His individual record documents arrest in November 1942, Sand Island November 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 1943-December 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Shawnee in December 1945. The archive records his later work as principal of Manoa Japanese Language School in the 1960s. 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/takeshita-wataru
