Biography
Yuichi Nakamura was an Issei Honolulu resident and owner of Nakamura Hotel, which he opened in 1930. JCCH records his birth year as 1897 and membership in the Honolulu Japanese Hotel Association. His individual record documents Sand Island detention, mainland transfer in May 1942, Angel Island and Fort Sam Houston in June 1942, Lordsburg June 1942-June 1943 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. No individual arrest date is established in this record. This was administrative US wartime civilian confinement in the context of Japanese ancestry. No individual criminal conviction, judicial sentence or exact release day is established. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/nakamura-yuichi
Photo: JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Row 3, rightmost). Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/nakamura-yuichi . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
