Yoshitami Jack Tasaka

AKA: Jack Tasaka; Jack Yoshitami Tasaka; 田坂養民
Released
Date of birth:1914
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:Hawaii
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 5 Months
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Yoshitami Jack Tasaka

Biography

Yoshitami Jack Tasaka was a Honolulu teacher at Hawaii Chuo Gakuin Japanese Language School, among its teachers incarcerated during World War II. JCCH records arrest in April 1943, confinement at Honouliuli and parole in September 1944. The archive preserves a memory map of the camp based on his recollections. Exact arrest and parole days and subsequent parole termination are unverified. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tasaka-yoshitami-jack

Photo source: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi. Jack Yoshitami Tasaka, April 1948. JCCH/Nippu Jiji Collection. Source image reproduced without alteration.

Case

Arrested: April 1943
Incarcerated: April 1943
Released: September 1944
Sentence: Administrative wartime detention, with April 1943 arrest and September 1944 parole. No individual criminal conviction, imposed judicial sentence, exact custody days or measured continuous duration established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/tasaka-yoshitami-jack

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