HATA

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HATA FAMILY HISTORY

The Hata family has been researched back to the early 1800s. It began in a small section of Shimokii village called Yasutake located in Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyushu.

Ichiroku and Asa (Kawakubo) Hata lived and raised their family in Yasutake. Asa was the second daughter of Rizaemon Kawakubo from the village of Oyamada in Tsuiki Township. She and Ichiroku were married on January 1, 1840. Asa died on December 25, 1898. They were a family of farmers. Because they had no son to give their inheritance to, they chose to adopt a son for this purpose. The adoptive son’s name was Kakubei Takenaka. He took upon himself the name of Hata. Kakubei was born on June 10, 1844. He was the fourth son of Kozaemon Takenaka. Kakubei married Etsu Abe who was from the village of Minato on December 8, 1865. Etsu, the second daughter of Shichibei and Hisa Abe, was born on April 18, 1850. Together they raised a family of six sons and daughters. Listed from oldest to youngest the children are: Moto (daughter), Ise (daughter), Zentaro (son), Matsu (daughter), Jirokichi (son), and Ushiroichi (son). Kakubei died on November 24th, 1921 and Etsu died on December 8, 1930.

Zentaro, first son of Kakubei and Etsu, was born on February 1, 1880. At the age of 25, Zentaro married Zentaro Hata

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Toku Murata, who was the eldest daughter of Tashichi Murata, on April 6, 1905. They were married for seven years before they divorced on November 6, 1912. No children were born to this union. It is unsure why they divorced but it is known that Zentaro had been in the United States since 1906. When the divorce was recorded in the family records, Zentaro was still in America. It is unclear why Zentaro came to America. Many Japanese went to America to make their fortunes with the hope of returning home wealthy. Because Zentaro was the oldest son and was to inherit the home and land after his father’s death, it is difficult to understand why he left. Zentaro did inherit from his father on January 16, 1922 after his father Kakubei died. From a Japanese book entitled “Biographies of those who strove in the Yakima plain” published in 1935, there is an entry for the Hata family. It states that Zentaro immigrated to the United States in 1906. From passenger shipping records for Honolulu, Hawaii during this time period we know that, at age 26, Zentaro departed from Nagasaki, Japan in 1906 on the S.S. Korea. He arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii in August of 1906. From here Zentaro later took the same ship from Honolulu to California arriving in San Francisco on November 8, 1906. Zentaro then, for some reason, returned to Honolulu. On January 23, 1907, he returned to San Francisco and then, with his brother Jirokichi, made his way to the Yakima, Washington plain in February of 1907.

When they first came to the Yakima plain the land was covered in virgin sagebrush. They helped clear the sagebrush, with horse and plow, before they started farming 300 acres of potatoes. Zentaro and Jirokichi leased farmland from hakujin (white) famers or from the Yakama Indian Reservation. They farmed continuously on these leased lands until 1917.

S.S. Korea

Zentaro Hata and possibly his brother

Jirokichi

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On July 31, 1917, Zentaro wed Etsu Omizo in a proxy marriage. Zentaro was in Wapato, Washington while Etsu was at a Buddhist temple near both their villages. The marriage was entered into the Hata family record (koseki tohon). This was an arranged marriage. Etsu was known as a picture bride. Etsu was the third daughter born to Shintaro and Kisa (Kawano) Omizo on September 23, 1895 in Minato village. Etsu was the fourth of seven children and she grew up with the following six siblings (three brothers and three sisters): Aki (female), Emi (female), Manzo (male), Kanichi (male), Suma (female), and Taizo (male). Her grandparents were Fuzo and Yuki (Kawamura) Omizo. They both were married on March 12, 1856 in Minato.

At the time of their marriage Etsu was 22 years old and Zentaro was 37. Less than a year later, Etsu boarded a passenger ship called the S.S. Suwa Maru in Nagasaki, Japan. A lengthy 23 days later she arrived in Seattle, Washington on June 12, 1918. Zentaro picked her up and took her back to Wapato. Over the next few years two boys were born to the family. Yoshio on September 18, 1919 and Daikichi on December 20, 1920.

Up to this time the Hatas and the Japanese people in general lived and farmed in relative peace. In 1921, Washington state anti-alien land laws not only disrupted, but also uprooted the Hatas from their home. Tensions between the Japanese and the local people in Wapato and the Yakima valley ran high because they resented the successful, innovative, and productive farmland the Japanese had created. They were also suspicious of a people and a culture they did not understand. Issei, or first

Etsu Omizo Hata

Yoshio and Daikichi Hata

Zentaro Hata

S.S. Suwa Maru

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generation Japanese who immigrated to America, were without U.S. citizenship. Nissei, second generation Japanese born in America, were legal U.S. citizens. The state of Washington passed laws which severely restricted the Issei farmer’s ability to own or lease farmland. The Hata family was forced to leave Wapato for other farming opportunities rather than stay and work non-farming jobs. It was at this time that Zentaro and his brother parted ways. Jirokichi decided to try his hand at coal mining. Jirokichi is listed as living in Sweetwater County in the 1930 federal census for Wyoming. He went to Wyoming to work for the Superior Mining company. Zentaro and his family traveled by truck southwest toward the Washington/Oregon border. They eventually came to Troutdale, Multnomah County, Oregon. Oregon’s anti-alien land laws were less strict and an Issei farmer could lease farmland. The Hatas were truck farmers and planted, harvested, and sold their produce in Troutdale for

approximately one year. Kazuko, first daughter of Zentaro and Etsu, was born here on June 25, 1922. When their year was complete, the family packed up and moved east 60 miles from Troutdale to The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon. On June 12, 1924 Mutsko, second daughter of Zentaro and Etsu, was born. Over a year later, on February 26, 1926, Etsu gave birth to a baby girl who lived just one day. The death certificate reveals the name as “Baby Hata”. Zentaro buried her there in The Dalles. The cause of her death was a premature birth and because Etsu had been sick with the flu at the time. In The Dalles, the Hatas leased six acres of land next to the Columbia River at a place called Crates Point. After their harvest of fruits and vegetables they would take their produce and sell them to grocery stores in larger surrounding cities with three other Japanese families. The Todas and the Migakis were their farming neighbors. Kazuko remembers her mother working in the fields and in a greenhouse 100 feet from the

Crates Point in The Dalles, Oregon overlooking the Columbia River

-John Lundell

Kazuko Hata

Mutsko Hata

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Columbia River. Etsu also brought rice balls, vegetables, and pickles to the fields where the family ate their meals. The Hatas leased the six acres of land from a Dr. W.O. Dutton. Yoshio began his education at the Chenowith elementary/grammar school near The Dalles. Yoshio recalls that it was a three mile walk to the school. Yoshio and Daikichi used to play with friends in a place called Jap Hollow. One of the friends, Harry Toda, recalled his memories of Zentaro and Etsu. He said “Mrs. Hata was nice. She would bring us some candy or something.” Of Zentaro, he recalled “Mr. Hata always walked barefoot. His feet were so hard and calloused that to light a match he would strike it on the bottom of his foot. Then he would light his cigarette with it.” Kazuko used to play near the Columbia River. She has said that she must have had a guardian angel to protect her from the dangers associated with and in proximity to the Columbia River. She also remembered discovering scorpions in her bed sheets.

Eventually, a loophole was found in the anti-alien land law in Washington State. There were ways found to rent farmland through the use of subleases. So the Hatas packed up their truck (Kazuko remembers their funny old truck that was black and all enclosed and had a top on it that housed five people) and headed back to Wapato, Washington in 1926. In this year, Yoshio and Daikichi started attending the Wapato Central School. A year later Kazuko followed in her brothers’ footsteps and became a student. They also visited one of Zentaro’s cousins who lived in Seattle. Her name was Shika (Takenaka) Shinoda. Zentaro’s father Kakubei was a Takenaka before he changed his name to Hata.

In 1927, the Hata family started subleasing land from a local farmer named Dan A. McDonald. Not only did he allow the Hatas to sublease farmland from him he would also, at a later time, sell some

of his own land to them. Yoshio recalls working for Mr. McDonald when he came of age. He proved to be a great

Kazuko Hata

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friend to the Hata family and the Japanese people during World War II.

On June 26, 1928 Sono, third daughter of Zentaro and Etsu, was born in Wapato, Yakima County, Washington.

In 1932, Jirokichi came back to Wapato from the Wyoming coal mines. He had made good money in the mines and wanted to return home to see his older sister Matsu Suyama and settle down and buy some land. Kazuko remembers meeting her Uncle for the first time when she was ten years old. Jirokichi suffered a stroke which caused him to be peg-legged (his leg would not bend at the knee) and he also suffered from Bell’s palsy (a condition where one side of the face becomes paralyzed).

In 1933 Etsu decided to send Mutsko and Sono to help and accompany Jirokichi back to Japan and so they could attend a two-week Buddhist group tour. She wanted them to acquire a traditional Japanese education. Mutsko was nine years old at this time and Sono was five. It was thought that Jirokichi would never get married because of his age (48) and his poor health. But to the surprise of many he did marry. Three years after Jirokichi returned to his home in Japan he married a Sumi Siroto on February 17, 1936. He was 51 years old and she was 30. Mutsko recalls “At that time (Jirokichi’s marriage) Sono and I decided to go back to

America, but Jirokichi asked me to stay with his family and hoped me to grow up to be an adult. So I finally remained with his family.” Shortly thereafter, in 1935, Sono’s Japanese school teacher from Yakima went and brought her back home but she could not bring home Mutsko. Kazuko remembers her

father, Zentaro, missing Sono greatly while she was in Japan. Etsu tried desperately to get Mutsko and Sono back home but could not

Young Mutsuko and friend in Japan

Mutsuko Hata Suyama and Jirokichi's wife Sumi Hata

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because of the start of World War II. Later, after the war, Etsu went three times to visit Mutsko and her family. She also visited her mother Kisa (Kawano) Omizo. En route to Japan, Etsu stopped in Hawaii to visit her oldest sister Aki (Omizo) Shinoda. On these trips she suffered from equilibrium imbalance.

Mutsko ended up marrying Jirokichi’s older sister’s (Matsu Hata Suyama) son Shimeo Suyama. Meanwhile, the Hatas continued to farm Dan Mcdonald’s land until 1942. They grew sweet corn, tomatoes, onions, cantelopes and honeydew melons.

In June of 1937, Yoshio graduated from Wapato High School. He played baseball for a Wapato baseball team. These Japanese baseball teams were usually very good and won many awards. They were an all-Japanese team. Yoshio was at this point very involved with the family’s farming operation.

Zentaro died on February 22, 1939 in Wapato, Washington. There was a single family friend named K. Nakamichi who lived with the family and worked on their farm. He was the one who reported Zentaro’s death. His funeral was conducted at the local Buddhist Temple and he was interred at Tahoma Cemetery in Yakima, Washington where he has a tombstone with both Japanese and English inscriptions. Etsu sent this information to Zentaro’s family in Japan and it was entered into Zentaro’s family record (koseki tohon). Because Zentaro’s only living child in Japan was his daughter Mutsko she inherited the house and the land on June 4, 1944. Later on, Kazuko recalled that Mutsko lost this same house and land because her young children were playing with fire near a

Mutsuko Hata Suyama holding firstborn son, husband Shimeo and mother-in-law Matsu

Zentaro Hata's funeral in front of Buddhist Temple

Yoshio Hata

Zentaro's gravestone

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neighbor’s place and two homes caught on fire and burned to the ground. The authorities gave Mutsko’s home and land to the neighbor and Mutsko was forced to move to Kitakyushu in Fukuoka where she lives today. She owns a convenience store and lives in its attic that has only two windows.

After Zentaro’s death in 1939, Yoshio and Daikichi assumed responsibilities of both providing for the family and managing the farm. They most likely were running the farming even before Zentaro’s death. Zentaro’s health may have been poor and he may have been unable to assist in farming the land. For instance, in 1938 at age 19, Yoshio was registered with the Yakima Coop Purchasing Association. In 1939 Yoshio and Daikichi, not Zentaro, purchased a tractor, a plow, a cultivator,

and other necessary farm implements for $1,700. With no father and a mother and three younger sisters to support, Yoshio and Daikichi each took out $1,000 life insurance policies with the Sun Life Insurance of Canada (home office in Seattle). They were 20-year endowment plan policies with annual premiums of $50. Daikichi enrolled at the University of Washington and completed two years of college during 1940-1942. He worked for the N.Y.A. in the Oceanography Department at the University of Washington from September 1941 to November 1941. Around 1940, Yoshio and Daikichi made a deal with Dan A. McDonald, of Donald, Washington, to buy 30 acres of land on a payment plan. This would be their first opportunity to own land. Yoshio and Daikichi were not able to meet the payments and were several years in default when the evacuation of the Japanese during World War II occurred. When the family left the farm in June of 1942, Mr. McDonald arranged to repossess the land.

On December 7, 1941 Japanese naval planes bombed the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. This catastrophic event instigated the

Daikichi and Yoshio

Daikichi Hata

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mass removal of hundreds of thousands of Japanese residents from their homes on the west coast.

Daikichi enrolled at the University of Washington to continue his studies in the fall of 1941 but did not return to the University after the Christmas Holidays.

On December 31, 1941 the Wapato Police seized Daikichi’s Eastman Kodak Spartan radio (model #196308) and an A.C. Receiver (Model 538) calling it contraband. The reason it was confiscated was because it had short wave radio capability. The police feared it could be used in the war effort to relay messages to the Japanese military. While Daikichi was at Heart Mountain (a relocation center in Cody, Wyoming where some of the Japanese from the West Coast were sent for the duration of the World War II) he had to sign a document agreeing that the short wave attachments would be removed from the radio before Daikichi could get his radio back. He possibly wanted the radio while at Heart Mountain and maybe at the University of Wyoming.

The Hata family was rounded up with other Japanese families in Wapato and sent on a train to the Portland, Oregon Assembly Center and arrived on June 6, 1942. Animal stalls were used to house all the families. On September 1, 1942 the entire Hata family except for Yoshio and Daikichi travelled to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Cody, Wyoming. Both brothers heeded the call of local area farmers who needed help because of a Japanese labor shortage and left the assembly center in Portland, Oregon to work for Lester Goulet, a beet farmer at Route #1 in Nyssa, Oregon. Yoshio worked there during the summer of 1942 and saved his money so he could go to college during the following year.

Heart Mountain Relocation Center

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Etsu, Kazuko, and Sono arrived at Heart Mountain Relocation Center with many of their neighbors and friends.

Etsu Hata, Yoshio Hata, Unknown boy, Sono Hata, Masayuki Honda, Kazuko Hata, and Etsu Hata

Daikichi followed his family later on August 13, 1942 to Heart Mountain Relocation Center after working with his brother for Lester Goulet in Nyssa, Oregon. Yoshio did attend the University of Wyoming for the 1942-1943 school year. Yoshio’s address was 151 N. 4th street at Laramie, Wyoming.

Each member of the Hata family was assigned a number (37048A through 37048E) at Heart Mountain that matched their housing location number within the camp. At the camp residents could work various jobs for pay, attend school, have medical check-ups, attend social events, and raise gardens.

Daikichi was at Heart Mountain two months before he was accepted to the University of Wyoming in Laramie to attend school in October of 1942. His address there was 812 Ivinson Way. Daikichi, who was studying to become a doctor, attended the University of Wyoming continuously until he was graduated in June, 1944. During the period that he attended college, he earned his room and board working as a waiter in a boarding house.

Members of the Hata family could not travel between Laramie and Cody, Wyoming or anywhere else without the government meticulously tracking their whereabouts. Traveling of any kind required

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permission from the Center and was very closely monitored. All Japanese had to be accounted for at all times. Etsu, Yoshio, Daikichi, and Sono went through this experience multiple times.

In the summer of 1943, after his first year of college at the University of Wyoming, Yoshio returned to work on Lester Goulet’s beet farm in Nyssa, Oregon. The following winter in the 1943-1944 school year, Yoshio once again attended the University of Wyoming. In March, 1944, Yoshio became ill with arthritis and had to discontinue his studies. During the summer of 1944 he was able to work part of the time for Lester Goulet but was not regularly employed and was unable to save money. Yoshio came to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in November, 1944. Yoshio had been receiving treatments for arthritis. On February 10, 1945, he was examined by the doctor at Heart Mountain who reported that ‘the arthritis was caused by the focal infection in the tonsils which have been taken out and that Yoshio now appears well and able to work.’

Although the Hatas and other Japanese families from the Yakima Valley were now located at Heart Mountain, there were hakujin (white) people back in Wapato who defended them before, during, and after the evacuation. Daniel A. McDonald was one of these kind friends as alluded to previously. The farming equipment the Hatas had to leave behind in Wapato was left in his care. The equipment was used by the next tenant renting Mr. McDonald’s land and he agreed to return the equipment to the Hata family in as good condition as he received it. The Hata children also had a good relationship with the McDonalds. Dan McDonald, Jr. remembers the Hatas as hard workers. He said Yoshio was good in school as well as good on the farm. Daikichi was closer to Dan Jr.’s age and they were good friends. They spend their summers working together at a fruit stand. He remarked that Daikichi liked reading in his spare time. Daikichi liked to talk with the customers (He would have their life story before they left). Sometimes gypsies would come to their stand, wear loose clothing and walk off with some inventory. Dan McDonald,

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Sr. would call the sheriff and they would take off fast. Dan Jr. said the Hatas were truck farmers. He recalled that Daikichi hooked him on seafood crab cocktails at the seafood counter and he hooked Daikichi on French toast.

The other kind hakujin (white) friend to the Hatas and many other Japanese was Wapato hardware store owner Esther Boyd, who along with Dan McDonald, travelled to Seattle, Washington to testify before a congressional hearing (Tolan committee) concerning the removal of the Japanese from Washington state. They testified that the Japanese were honest, hardworking people who loved their new country. They also stated that if the Japanese were relocated there would be a shortage of labor in the Yakima valley and that farmers would be hurt. Esther and Dan were very close to the Japanese for many years and trusted them. Other community members wanted the Japanese removed for financial gain. Many thought that land once owned by the Japanese could now be gained to their benefit. These people turned their displeasure against Dan and Esther for their support of the Japanese and many hardships came to them as a result. Esther was once told “Why don’t you move to Tokyo!” Esther came to know the Hata family and especially Yoshio to whom she took a great liking. She would hire high school students both Caucasian and Japanese. When Yoshio was applying to the University of Wyoming and having trouble proving that he could pay for tuition, Yoshio sent the University a note from Mr. Joseph V. Rouleau, manager of the Wapato Branch of the National Bank of Commerce of Seattle. He certifies that Yoshio had $1,049.32 in a savings account and $905.50 in a checking account. Mr. Rouleau also certified that Mrs. W.G. Boyd (Esther) has $6,870 on deposit at the bank and that her hardware store had an A-1 credit rating. On September 2, 1942, Esther Boyd typed the following on her hardware store stationary: ‘I am enclosing a statement from the Wapato National Bank of Commerce as to my financial standing. It is my intention to help Yoshio Hata with whatever amount of money he needs to complete his education. Yours very truly, Esther Short Boyd (Mrs. W.G. Boyd).’

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The Hatas were lucky. They were one of the few families that were able to move back to Wapato at the end of the war. Kazuko had left the Heart Mountain relocation center because a hired matchmaker named Yoshio Shaka introduced her to her future husband, Masayuki Honda. Because of this marriage, Kazuko was able to leave Heart Mountain a year earlier than the rest of her family. She moved to Idaho Falls where her husband had a potato farm. Their address

was Rt. 4, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Daikichi, as soon as he graduated from the University of Wyoming in June of 1944, went to Chicago where he began working as a mechanic. He was thus employed until November of 1944 when he went into the U.S. Army. Daikichi met and married a nurse named Stella Jane Brooks while he was in residency at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 1952. Yoshio, who

met his future wife Carmen Ishibashi at Heart Mountain left for Cleveland, Ohio and Chicago, Illinois where he found work growing mushrooms underground. He also worked at an experimental station greenhouse researching tomato production. He added “Not too exciting.” Yoshio and Carmen were married in Cleveland on November 18, 1945. At some point Etsu and Sono joined them and stayed with them until they were able to return to their home in Wapato in December of 1946. Yoshio was able to eventually purchase land from Dan McDonald. It was the same land of the McDonald’s they farmed before the evacuation. The deal was made with a handshake which Yoshio described as “Incredible.” It is believed to be land that Mr. McDonald’s mother once owned and is believed to be the same acreage that the Hata’s farmed for many years. Esther and Dan deeded property back to the Hatas and gave the proceeds from the renting out of the Japanese gymnasium back to

Daikichi Hata

Yoshio and Carmen Hata

Masayuki and Kazuko Honda

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the Japanese. We know that the Boyd and McDonald families welcomed them home with open arms.

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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Yoshio Hata

Yoshio, in 1938, belonged to the Yakima Coop Purchasing Association.

Yoshio was a member of the JACL for 5 years and was the vice president in 1940 and 1942.

In 1941 he belonged to the Associated Farmers of Washington.

References for Heart Mountain:

S.N. Matsen of Wapato, Washington – Car Dealer Mrs. Esther Boyd of Wapato, Washington – Hardware Store A. Berg of Toppenish, Washington – Lumber Dealer Vard Nichols of Wapato, Washington – Chief of Police Dan McDonald of Donald, Washington – Farmer Lester Goulet of Nyssa, Oregon – Farmer

Yoshio has listed carpentry as one of his skills.

Schools Yoshio attended:

Chenowith School, The Dalles, Oregon 1925 – 1927 Wapato Central, Wapato, Washington 1927 – 1931 Wapato Junior High, Wapato, Washington 1931 – 1934 Wapato High School, Wapato, Washington 1934 – 1937 University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 1943

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Daikichi Hata

Schools Daikichi attended:

Wapato Central High School from September, 1927 – June, 1935.

Japanese Language School from September, 1927 to June, 1936.

Wapato High School from September, 1935 to June, 1939. His senior year he was the Salutarian of his high school class. He attended the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington

from September, 1940 to April, 1942. He attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

from October, 1942 until he graduated. At the University of Wyoming, Daikichi participated with the

R.O.T.C. from October, 1942 until he graduated. His major was pre-medicine.

Daikichi worked for his brother Yoshio on his farm on Route 1 Wapatao, Washington during his summer vacation from 1935 to 1941. At the University of Wyoming, Daikichi worked for the Chemistry Department from June 1943 until he graduated.

He was a member of the Northwest Young Buddhist league and a member of the Japanese American Citizens League from 1939 to 1943. He was an Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-medics honorary at the University of Wyoming from May 1943 until graduation.

References given to Heart Mountain Relocation authorities:

Dan A. McDonald of Donald, Washington – farmer – 15 years. Mrs. Esther Boyd – Box 548, Wapato, Washington – Hardware

Store – 3 Years. Karl Heliterman – Wapato, Washington – Chevrolet Dealer – 8

years.

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Dan Matsen – Wapato, Washington – Plymouth, Dodge dealer – 10 years.

Dr. Hodgson – Wapato, Washington – Dentist – 5 years.

Magazines / Newspapers subscribed to: Pre-Evacuation –

Seattle Daily Times Post Intelligence Wapato Independent Newsweek Time American.

Daikichi listed sports as a hobby from a Heart Mountain interview. In later life he also knew all the statistics for all the St. Louis Cardinals.

Daikichi slightly injured his eye and was unable to enter the University of Wyoming until the Spring of 1943.

Kazuko Hata

Schools Kazuko attended:

Wapato Central School for grammar school from September 1927 - June 1933.

Wapato Junior High School from September 1933 - June 1936. Wapato High School from September 1936 - June 1939. Attended the Universal Dressmaking school in Seattle, Washington

from 1940-1941.

Performed domestic cooking and housework for Mrs. Pherson and Mrs. Manoa.

Worked on her brother’s vegetable farm from 1941-1942.

Kazuko lister her specialty as – Dressmaking

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Skills – Drafting

Hobbies – Sewing (machine and hand), knitting, and reading

Occupations – Maid, General Tailor I

Had Rocky Mountain spotted fever in March and April of 1944.

Kazuko received Daikichi’s Eastman Kodak Spartan radio that was confiscated by the Wapato police on December 30, 1941. I assume she held it until she could give it back to Daikichi. They sent it from Heart Mountain to Route 4, Idaho Falls as of June 30, 1944.

In Heart Mountain in 1942, Etsu brought with her a sewing machine. In August, 1945, Heart Mountain shipped several crates (3 trunk boxes, 3 large creates, 2 small crates, 5 apple boxes, 1 crate (sewing machine), 2 Boxes (home made), and 1 barrel) on August 14, 1945 to Cleveland, Ohio at 19930 Detroit road. Sono, Etsu were going to relocate to Cleveland, Ohio. Kazuko went to Idaho Falls, Idaho. Daikichi was in Chicago. Kazuko relocated to Idaho Falls on the June 20, 1944.

Sono Hata

Sono went to school at Wapato from 1935 to 1942.

Hobbies – music

Jobs at Heart Mountain

potato cutter Agricultural worker School – student Music Aide

A report card showed all A’s and a B. She also took an I.Q. test and scored a 111.

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Sono, along with Etsu, would travel to Idaho Falls, Idaho, Kazuko’s new home, to work in the potato fields to earn money.

In May of 1944, Sono got Rocky Mountain spotted fever. She also had a cavity while she was at Heart Mountain.

In March of 1944, Sono, at Heart Mountain High School took the Jones Personality Rating Scale. All of her answers were in the Above Average – Excellent range.

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HATA FAMILY TREE

Zentaro and Etsu Hata

Yoshio

Daikichi

Kazuko

Mutsko

Sono

Yoshio and Carmen Hata

David

Kathy

Glenn

Dean

Daikichi and Stella Jane Hata

Steve

Richard

Jane

Kazuko and Masayuki Honda

Dale

Robert

Janice

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Mutsko and Shimeo Suyama

Takanobu

Takefumi

Yoshitaka

Hisayoshi

Sono and Sam Nakano

No children