Harry Y. Ueno

Harry Yoshio Ueno (, 1907-2004) was a Japanese-American union leader who was interned in Manzanar Concentration Camp. He rose to prominence when he was arrested and removed from the camp after being accused of attacking the leader of the Japanese American Citizens League on the night of December 5, 1942. His arrest sparked a series of protests among his fellow detainees in the camp which turned into the Manzanar Riot.

Early life Harry Ueno was born on April 14, 1907, in Pau’ulino, Hawaii and had an older and younger brother. In 1915 Ueno went to live in Japan where he continued his education outside Hiroshima and Tokyo. He returned to the U.S. in 1923, working various jobs in the Midwest and Pacific Coast. In 1930 he married Japanese immigrant Yaso Taguchi Ueno and raised three sons near Los Angeles' Little Tokyo while doing work in the wholesale produce market.