Kuniyuki, Takeo

Takeo Kuniyuki was among four members of the extended Kuniyuki family to be interned during the war. Uncle Aisuke Kuniyuki was in the Third Transfer Group sent to the Mainland in May 1942. Cousin Kimiko Kuniyuki Arita was the wife of internee Takazo Arita, the owner of Arita Barber Shop, where Takeo Kuniyuki worked. Takazo Arita was sent to the Mainland in October 1942, and Kimiko entered internment in 1944 in order to reunite with her husband. 

During this same period, four other members of the Kuniyuki family served in the U.S. military: Takeo's brother, Naoji Kuniyuki, and three of his cousins -- all sons of Aisuke -- Henry Seiya Kuniyuki, Edward Mutsuya Kuniyuki, and George Nobuya Kuniyuki (also known as Klayton).