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  • Home
    • Upcoming Events
    • About hakalauhome
    • Contact Us!
  • Yesterday
    • Timeline >
      • 1880s Detail
      • 1890s Detail
      • 1900s Detail
      • 1910s Detail
      • 1920s Detail
      • 1930s Detail
      • 1940s Detail
      • 1950s Detail
      • 1960s Detail
      • 1970s Detail
      • 1980s Detail
      • 1990s Detail
      • 2000s Detail
    • Camps >
      • Hakalau Upper Camp
      • Hakalau Lower Camp
      • Wailea Spanish Camp
      • Wailea Store Camp AKA Wailea Mill Camp
      • Chin Chuck Genjiro Camp
      • Chin Chuck Stable Camp
      • Honohina Upper Camp
      • Honohina Lower Camp
      • Honohina Mauka and Nanue Camps
      • Kamaee Camps - all three
      • Pake (Ah Ling) and Kaminaka Camps
      • Kahuku Camp
      • Yamagata Camp
    • Schools >
      • Hakalau School
      • John M. Ross School
    • Churches >
      • Hakalau Jodo Mission >
        • The Early Years
        • Years Between World Wars
        • The Mamiya Years
        • The Later Years
      • Honohina Hongwanji
    • Cemeteries
    • Hangouts and Memories >
      • Hakalau Park and School Complex
      • H. Fujii Store and Bakery
      • Jimmy's Hi-Way Cafe
      • Nishimoto Store
      • Nishiyama Bus Service and Garage
    • The Voice of Hakalau (Newspaper)
    • Work >
      • Hakalau Mill & Other Buildings
      • Wailea Milling Company: The Independent Homestead Mill
    • Hamakua Roads in the 19th Century: Firsthand Accounts
    • Bridges >
      • New Highway Bridges Hakalau 1950-1953
    • The Railroad
    • 1946 Tsunami
  • Today
    • Issues Today
    • Hakalau Farmers Market
    • Hakalau Jodo Mission Today
    • Honohina Hongwanji Today
    • Hakalau Reunions
    • Wailea Village Historic Preservation Community >
      • Cemetery Stewardship
      • Reviving Hakalau School
      • Senior Luncheons
      • Mochi Pounding
  • Tomorrow
    • Arsenic Remediation
    • Cliff Failures
    • Hāmākua Community Development Plan & Action Committee
    • Ninole Development (Mile Marker 19)
岡地豐實
TOYOZANE (or HOUJITSU) OKAJI

​Hakalau
Origin: Echi, Takaoka County, Kochi Prefecture
Birthdate: January 14, 1889
​Immigrated to Hawaii: August 11, 1907, age 18
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Wife: Komatsu; Sons: Keinosuke, Hidehiro, Sanehiro, Hidesachi, Masayuki, Tetsuro; Daughters: Fukiko, Michiko, Shigeko

He came to Hawaii on August 11th, 1907 and has lived in Hakalau. He served as the president of Kamae Mauka Tenant Farmers Association for a few years. He was the vice principal of Hakalau Japanese Language School for a few years, and currently he holds an important post of an inspector.
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At home he is one of the happiest people in the world enjoying his peaceful family of his wife, six sons and three daughters.