Biography
Yaroku Tanaka was an Issei resident of Hilo and general manager of Volcano Times Newspaper. JCCH records his birth year as 1881. His individual record documents December 1941 arrest, Kilauea Military Camp and Sand Island detention, March 1942 mainland transfer, Angel Island March-April 1942, Fort Sill April-May 1942, Camp Livingston June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. This was administrative US wartime civilian detention 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/tanaka-yaroku
