Biography
Yutetsu Matsui was a Buddhist priest and Japanese language school principal at Hana Hongwanji Mission, Maui. JCCH records his birth year as 1881 and arrest in December 1941. His individual record identifies Maui County Jail and Sand Island, mainland transfer in March 1942, 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 Honolulu aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. Two sons served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. His detention was part of US wartime incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry; no individual criminal conviction is established by the archive. Source: https://incarceration.jcchawaii.org/internees/matsui-yutetsu
Photo: JCCH/ Mamoru Ichiba Suga Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Row 2, sixth from left). 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.
