Hamada, Kuichi

A native of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kuichi Hamada immigrated to the Hawaiian Islands when he was about 19 years old. He worked in the plantation store of the Oahu Sugar Company in Waipahu and was an active member of Japanese American community there in the years before the war. He served as an officer of the Yamaguchi Kenjinkai (prefectural society), which boasted a membership in the hundreds. 

A widower with four sons and two daughters, Kuichi Hamada died in 1949.