kurihara was one of 5,725 nisei, mostly tule lake internees, who renounced u.s. citizenship under the renunciation act of 1944, and one of 316 who did not seek to restore their citizenship after the war's end. he departed for japan in november 1945 on board the with 1,500 other former internees. he worked for the united states army, japan as a translator in sasebo, nagasaki before moving to tokyo, where he lived until his death.