Yasuo Hirayama
Honolulu on July 15, 1912, aboard the Shinyo Maru. He was enroute to Hilo to join his father, Ehachi, who had arrived 10 years earlier. Kimiko’s parents, Katsuzo and Mine (Hayashi), emigrated from Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, arriving in Honolulu in 1898. Initially working as an insurance salesman, in 1930 the family lived at 354