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He began practicing law in the district courts in 1921 and served in the territorial legislature from 1932 to 1954. Despite being interned for the duration of World War II, he served as a magistrate in 1956 for the District Court of Ka'u until 1959 when he was appointed to fill the position with the Hamakua and the North and South Kohala District Courts.\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 He died February 22, 1989, in Honolulu at the age of 88.\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=\"#Early_Career_and_Internment_Experience\">\n <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n 1\n </span>\n <span class=\"toctext\">\n Early Career and Internment Experience\n </span>\n </a>\n </li>\n <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-2\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#Postwar_Fate\">\n <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n 2\n </span>\n <span class=\"toctext\">\n Postwar Fate\n </span>\n </a>\n </li>\n <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-3\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#For_More_Information\">\n <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n 3\n </span>\n <span class=\"toctext\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </a>\n </li>\n <li class=\"toclevel-1 tocsection-4\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#Footnotes\">\n <span class=\"tocnumber\">\n 4\n </span>\n <span class=\"toctext\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Early_Career_and_Internment_Experience\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Early_Career_and_Internment_Experience\">\n Early Career and Internment Experience\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Sakakihara, a Republican, served in the Territorial Legislature from 1932 to 1954 including two terms as finance chairman as one of the earliest Japanese American politicians in Hawai'i despite previous unsuccessful bids. In 1933, he married Sadako Aileen Arizumi, a teacher at Kapoho School in Puna. During his career as a representative, however, Sakakihara was convicted of having falsely certified a claim against the territory in connection with his duties as chairman of the House Lands Committee and was reprimanded for his conduct.\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 Yet, throughout his career, Sakakihara never wavered in his belief in the loyalty of the Japanese in the Islands. In October 1935, at a congressional committee at the statehood hearings, Sakakihara argued that the children of the territory are taught that \"their first duty of loyalty to the Stars and Stripes,\" as they are taught \"the fundamental principles of democracy\" and \"to live in the standards of the American community.\"\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 After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Sakakihara was named special deputy sheriff to advise Hilo police and to act as a liaison between the police and the military. However, he was removed from the job and arrested \"on suspicion of being an alien\" although he was born in Hilo.\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 Sakakihara was detailed at the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Honouliuli_(detention_facility)/\" title=\"Honouliuli (detention facility)\">\n Honouliuli internment camp\n </a>\n for a period of time before his release in 1943.\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>\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Postwar_Fate\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Postwar_Fate\">\n Postwar Fate\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Despite his incarceration during World War II, Sakakihara's career was not significantly affected. In 1957, Sakakihara was appointed magistrate for the Ka'u district court, a position that he held until 1959 when he was appointed magistrate of the Hamakua and Kohala districts. He retired in 1968. Sakakihara passed away in 1989, predeceased by his wife Aileen and survived by his two daughters, Ruth and Jeanne along with two brothers, Haruo and Rufus and sister Dorothy.\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 , University of Hawai'i\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 Sato, Hank. \"Honouliuli: Oahu's Little-Known World War II Internment Camp.\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star-Bulletin\n </i>\n , March 18, 1976, A-1-A-8.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"Thomas Sakakihara, Former Magistrate.\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Advertiser\n </i>\n , March 2, 1989, A-7.\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 University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Hamilton Library, \"Sakakihara, Rep. Thomas T.-1937/1950\" Microfiche D98050.\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 \"Censure for Sakakihara is Vote in House,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star Bulletin\n </i>\n , April 29, 1937, 1; \"Suspension is Sakakihara's Possible Fate,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star Bulletin\n </i>\n , April 28, 1937, 1; \"4 House Men Attest Hiring of More Help,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star Bulletin\n </i>\n , April 26, 1937, 1; \"Mystery Note Added to Case of Sakakihara,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star Bulletin\n </i>\n , April 27, 1937, 1; \"Sakakihara's Kin Claimed He Received Pay,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star Bulletin\n </i>\n , April 22, 1937, 1.\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 \"Legislator's View Defense of Statehood,\" University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Hamilton Library, \"Sakakihara, Rep. Thomas T.-1926-1937 1*\" Microfiche D98050.\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 \"Thomas Sakakihara, Former Magistrate,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Advertiser\n </i>\n , March 2, 1989, A-7.\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 Hank Sato, \"Honouliuli: Oahu's Little-Known World War II Internment Camp,\"\n <i>\n Honolulu Star-Bulletin\n </i>\n , March 18, 1976¸ A-1-A-8.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230622224620\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.016 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.022 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 212/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 2115/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 297/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 2306/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 16.501 1 -total\n 41.61% 6.866 1 Template:Databox-People\n 17.53% 2.893 1 Template:Reflist\n 8.73% 1.441 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 8.07% 1.331 1 Template:Published\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2322-0!canonical and timestamp 20230622224620 and revision id 10129\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>", "categories": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/categories/People/" ], "sources": [], "coordinates": {}, "authors": [ "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/authors/Kelli%20Y.%20Nakamura/" ], "ddr_topic_terms": [ "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-235/objects/", "https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/facet/topics/topics-277/objects/" ], "prev_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Thomas%20Ogata/", "next_page": "http://encyclopedia.densho.org/api/0.1/articles/Thomas%20Taro%20Higa/" }{ "url_title": "Thomas Sakakihara", "title_sort": "sakakiharathomas", "links": { "json": "