Biography
Yoshito Kuromiya was a Japanese American participant in the Heart Mountain draft-resistance movement. After being confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, he was prosecuted for refusing military conscription and imprisoned at McNeil Island in Washington. After prison he worked in gardening and landscape architecture.
1942 forced-removal chronology
The Heart Mountain institutional biography records arrival at Pomona Assembly Center on May 14, 1942, followed by Heart Mountain on August 25, 1942. These are dated confinement milestones, not a complete continuous-custody span or a revision of the later draft-resistance case. Heart Mountain institutional biography.
The Heart Mountain institutional biography records that Kuromiya was held with other draft resisters in Rawlins and then transferred to jail in Cheyenne before the June 1944 trial. This describes pretrial custody locations; the transfer dates and complete duration are not established.
