Terada, Kyuzo

Kyuzo Terada was the son of Hiroshima immigrants who opened a soy sauce brewing enterprise in Honolulu called Terada Shoten. By the early 1940s, Terada's parents had returned to Japan and he was running the family business, which now included a wholesale merchandising operation.

A few months after Kyuzo's arrest, his son George Ryoichi Terada, then a University of Hawaii student, volunteered to become a Japanese language translator for the U.S. Army. George Terada received training with the Military Intelligence Service and was sent in February 1944 as an interpreter to Italy, then to Africa, and later to the China-Burma-India theater. By the war's end, Sgt. George Terada was in Tokyo when he met, quite by accident, an older brother living in Japan, whom he hadn't seen in more than ten years.

In Hawaii, the Terada family would come to learn of the death the previous August of the family matriarch, Kyuzo Terada's mother, in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.