Father of Okinawan
Migration Remembered

By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
A crowd gathered yesterday to see the "father" of Okinawan migration,
Kyuzo Toyama, finally laid to rest in Hawaii. Faye Doi, left, a niece of
Toyama's, Tami Ashikaga, his granddaughter, and Maka Yonashiro,
an issei related to Toyama, listened to ceremonial prayers.

By Craig T. Kojima, Star-Bulletin
Bishop Yose Mori led the ceremony interring Toyama's ashes at Mililani
Memorial Park yesterday. Toyama, an educator on Okinawa, persuaded
the Japanese governor to let people leave the typhoon-battered island to
find work and new lives in Hawaii in 1900. He died in Okinawa in 1910.