Biography
Yozaemon Yamamoto was an Issei Koloa resident and employee of Kauai Soda Company. JCCH records his birth year as 1877. His individual record documents arrest in May 1942, Wailua County Jail in Lihue and Sand Island detention, mainland transfer March 1943, Sharp Park March-August 1943 and Santa Fe August 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. The archive does not provide precise dates for his initial jail-to-camp transfers. 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-yozaemon
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Second row, eighth from left.). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/kitajima-shoyu-masao . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
