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    "title": "Daizo Sumida",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Daizo Sumida\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      August 7 1887\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      December 30 1961\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Hiroshima, Japan\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n        Issei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Daizo;\nLastName:Sumida;\nDisplayName:Daizo Sumida;\nBirthDate:1887-08-07;\nDeathDate:1961-12-30;\nBirthLocation:Hiroshima, Japan;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Issei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Daizo Sumida (1887-1961) was a prominent\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Issei/\" title=\"Issei\">\n   Issei\n  </a>\n  business and community leader in Hawai'i who authorities incarcerated due to anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II.\n </p>\n <div aria-labelledby=\"mw-toc-heading\" class=\"toc\" id=\"toc\" role=\"navigation\">\n  <input class=\"toctogglecheckbox\" id=\"toctogglecheckbox\" role=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" type=\"checkbox\"/>\n  <div class=\"toctitle\" dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\n   <h2 id=\"mw-toc-heading\">\n    Contents\n   </h2>\n   <span class=\"toctogglespan\">\n    <label class=\"toctogglelabel\" for=\"toctogglecheckbox\">\n    </label>\n   </span>\n  </div>\n  <ul>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-1\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Background\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      1\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Background\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-2\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Business_Experience\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      2\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Business Experience\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-3\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#War_Experience\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      3\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      War Experience\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-4\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#For_More_Information\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      4\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      For More Information\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n   <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-5\">\n    <a class=\"\" href=\"#Footnotes\">\n     <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n      5\n     </span>\n     <span class=\"toctext\">\n      Footnotes\n     </span>\n    </a>\n   </li>\n  </ul>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Background\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Background\">\n    Background\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Daizo Sumida was born in 1887 in Hiroshima prefecture's Niho village and was the son of a farmer. He immigrated to Hawai'i in November 1904 after his older brother, Tajiro, who had arrived in the Islands in 1898, encouraged him to leave Japan to help him run his new liquor import and wholesale company. Sumida, who was in high school at the time, quit school and immigrated to Hawai'i. During the day, he attended classes at Iolani School, a college-preparatory private school founded in 1863, and at night took English classes at the Young Buddhist Association.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Business_Experience\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Business_Experience\">\n    Business Experience\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    In 1908, Tajiro opened the Honolulu Japanese Sake Brewing Co. in Pauoa Valley to meet the growing demands of the immigrant population that was frustrated by the high prices of sake imported from Japan. Although Hawai'i's warm climate was initially a deterrent, Tajiro built a cooling facility capable of duplicating Japan's cold winters and began successfully brewing sake. When Tajiro learned that the territory of Hawai'i would soon be under Prohibition, he left the business in Sumida's care and returned to Japan where he established Sumida Shōkai, a trading company that the two brothers—one in Japan and the other in Hawai'i—would run. In Hawai'i, Sumida transformed the company into T. Sumida &amp; Co., a general merchandise, grocery import, and wholesale business and converted the sake's brewery's chilling facilities into an ice-making business. Despite the reduction in profit during Prohibition, the company's Diamond Shoyu subsidiary managed to survive. Eventually, Sumida built a three-story office building in Chinatown located at the corner of Maunakea and Pauahi streets and he operated the first Japanese business in Hawai'i to have an elevator capable of traveling up to the third floor.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    When Prohibition was finally repealed in 1933, Sumida began importing sake again from Japan and changed the name of the company to Honolulu Sake Brewery and Ice Co. Ltd. He built a new concrete-wall sake storage facility and began producing popular brands such as Daikoku Masamune, Takara Masamune, and Takara Musume. He also played a critical role in establishing Pacific Bank in 1913 and was the bank's president from 1933 until the outbreak of World War II. Sumida additionally served as a board member of the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (now known as the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce) from 1919 and was elected two terms as Chamber president in 1933 and 1938. Further, Sumida chaired the Imperial Memorial Gift Building Construction Committee that was established to utilize the 10,000 yen donation that Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako had given two years earlier to construct a memorial building within the Japanese Hospital, now known as Kuakini Hospital in Liliha. Construction began in 1936 and the structure was completed in 1939.\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n      [1]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"War_Experience\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"War_Experience\">\n    War Experience\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Due to Sumida's prominent role as a business and community leader within Hawai'i's Japanese population, authorities arrested Sumida in February 1942 and interned him first at\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Sand_Island_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Sand Island (detention facility)\">\n     Sand Island\n    </a>\n    and later\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Santa_Fe_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Santa Fe (detention facility)\">\n     Santa Fe\n    </a>\n    , New Mexico.\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n      [2]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n    Sumida would not be allowed to return to Hawai'i until December 1945.\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n      [3]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n    His brother, Tajiro who was in Japan during the war, also suffered from misfortune as he lost his fledging coffee business in Taiwan and Saipan. In 1950, Tajiro passed away and Sumida, who did not have any children of his own, adopted Tajiro's third son, Shinzaburo who worked at Sumida's business in Hawai'i.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    In the postwar period, Sumida worked tirelessly to rebuild the Honolulu Japanese Chamber of Commerce that authorities had shut down during the war. He also served as president of the Young Buddhist Association and the Hawaii Kiin (a go, or Japanese checkers club), and was on the board of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii. In 1955, he became the first president of the newly formed Hawaii Hiroshima\n    <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Kenjinkai/\" title=\"Kenjinkai\">\n     Kenjinkai\n    </a>\n    and as an editorial in the\n    <i>\n     Honolulu Advertiser\n    </i>\n    noted, \"while building good will between the ethnic groups was one of Sumida’s aims, he did not stop there. When a community need appeared he did something about it.\"\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n      [4]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n    One year later Emperor Hirohito awarded him The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays for his years of service and many contributions to the Japanese community.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    In July 1961, Sumida suffered a stroke in July and died in December. Upon his death, he was conferred the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Sumida was survived by his wife Fusayo, son Shinzaburo, and three grandchildren.\n    <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n     <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n      [5]\n     </a>\n    </sup>\n   </p>\n   <div id=\"authorByline\">\n    <b>\n     Authored by\n     <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Kelli_Y._Nakamura/\" title=\"Kelli Y. Nakamura\">\n      Kelli Y. Nakamura\n     </a>\n     , Kapi'olani Community College\n    </b>\n   </div>\n   <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n    Nakamura, Kelli\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Suzuki, Kei. \"Daizo Sumida.\"\n    <i>\n     Hawai‘i Herald\n    </i>\n    , Oct. 5 2007, C-4.\n   </p>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n    Footnotes\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n    <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n     <ol class=\"references\">\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        Kei Suzuki, \"Daizo Sumida,\"\n        <i>\n         Hawai'i Herald\n        </i>\n        , Oct. 5 2007, C-4.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        Sumida was also mentioned as a possible \"hostage\" in a secret plan that General George S. Patton prepared as chief of U.S. Army intelligence in Hawai'i between 1935 and 1937. Michael Slackman, \"The Orange Race: George S. Patton, Jr.'s Japanese-American Hostage Plan,\"\n        <i>\n         Biography\n        </i>\n        7.1 (Winter 1984), 11.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        Yasutaro (Keiho) Soga,\n        <i>\n         Life Behind Barbed Wire: the World War II Internment Memories of a Hawai'i Issei\n        </i>\n        (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008), 34.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        \"Daizo Sumida,\"\n        <i>\n         Honolulu Advertiser\n        </i>\n        , Jan. 3 1962, B-2.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n      <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n       <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n        <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n         ↑\n        </a>\n       </span>\n       <span class=\"reference-text\">\n        \"Daizo Sumida Dies; Noted Isle Japanese,\"\n        <i>\n         Honolulu Star-Bulletin\n        </i>\n        , Jan. 1, 1962, 2.\n       </span>\n      </li>\n     </ol>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153648\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.022 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 216/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2123/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 301/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 2048/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   16.321      1 -total\n 42.78%    6.982      1 Template:Databox-People\n 17.22%    2.810      1 Template:Reflist\n  8.24%    1.345      1 Template:AuthorByline\n  8.07%    1.317      1 Template:Published\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3603-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153647 and revision id 26843\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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