Biography
Zenzo Kisada was an Issei Kapaa resident and owner of Kisada Store. JCCH records his birth year as 1888. His individual record documents arrest in July 1942, Military Police Detention Camp in Lihue and Sand Island custody, mainland transfer September 1942, Angel Island September-October 1942, Lordsburg in October 1942 and Santa Fe June 1943-October 1945. The intervening chronology is not specified. He returned to Hawaii aboard Yarmouth in November 1945. 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/kisada-zenzo
Photo: JCCH/Sunao Fujii Archival Collection. Original-scan crop; identified in the source caption (Row 2, ninth 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.
