from Higashizuka, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, as a contract laborer at Lihue Sugar Plantation. His mother Yasue was born on the Koloa Sugar Company plantation to Isokichi and Sato (Murakami) Kawaguchi. They had arrived from Saidosho, Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1898. On July 1, 1941, Suematsu registered for the draft. He was living at
had wandered off. The group was catching the 4:40 p.m. Wabash train. The only other soldier in the group who was identified by name was Private Yukio Sato. Most of them were from Seattle and a few from Portland, Oregon. Two or three of them commented that they had seen few Japanese Americans before
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