Isamu Minatodani
as his surname and their family name. They arrived in Hawaii on the Kinshiu Maru on March 10, 1899. Isamu had six brothers: Yoichi, Seiichi, Bunkichi, Masaharu, Joseph Eiichi; and Hirokichi; and three sisters: Yoshiyo, Torayo, and Haruko. Eiichi used Nishimura as his surname. The family moved to Honolulu about 1912 from the Big Island,