Tsuda, Ryuto

A small number of women were arrested and then interned at Honouliuli Internment Camp. In addition to Ryuto Tsuda, women incarcerated in the camp Masako Fujimura, Irene Umeno Harada, Helen Shizuko Nakagawa, Haruko Takahashi, and Yasue Takahashi.

Tsuda was known by many names: Kiyome Hirai (at birth), Alice Kiyome Tsuda (upon marriage), Ryuto Tsuda (during the war, as a Buddhist nun), Ryuto Hirai (upon divorce). She is also associated with the religious names Shinsho Hirai and, after the war, Bishop Tatsusho Hirai, founder of the Todaiji Hawaii Temple in Nuuanu Valley, which she led until her death in 1987.