Biography
Yaichi Yamamoto was an Issei pineapple laboratory worker from Lanai City, Lanai. JCCH records his birth year as 1890. His individual record documents arrest in October 1942, Haiku detention, Sand Island December 1942-March 1943, mainland transfer in 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/yamamoto-yaichi
