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Shinpei Mykawa
was a Japanese rice farmer who introduced the cultivation of rice in parts of southeast Texas. The community of Mykawa and Mykawa Road in Houston are named after him. History Mykawa graduated from what would become Hitotsubashi University. At the time it was Tokyo's number one commercial college.Connor, R. E.How That Road Got Its Name" ''Houston Post'', Sunday May 2, 1965. Spotlight, Page 3. – Available on microfilm at the Houston Public Library Central Library Jesse H. Jones Building In 1903 Mykawa first came to the United States as a naval officer representing Japan at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. While on his way to return to Japan, Mykawa passed through Houston and decided that the land around the city was perfect for rice cultivation. Mykawa settled in Erin Station, an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas, and established a rice farm there. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanyo Shimbun
The is a Japanese language daily newspaper published by . The company was founded in 1879. The newspaper is based in Okayama City, Japan. The newspaper covers national and international news stories and also news from Okayama and neighboring prefectures. It is distributed throughout Okayama prefecture, eastern Hiroshima, and parts of Kagawa. Stories can be read online, though most stories are only available to subscribers. With ''The Nikkei'', the newspaper owns TV Setouchi (TSC) is a TV station in Japan. It is one of the TX Network (TXN) stations, broadcasting in Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture, and it is the only TXN TV station in the Chugoku-Shikoku region. Anime produced TV Setouchi produced a few a .... Notes External links ''Sanyo Shimbun digital''(Japanese) 1879 establishments in Japan Publications established in 1879 Daily newspapers published in Japan Japanese-language newspapers Okayama Prefecture Mass media in Okayama {{Japan-newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Houston
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitotsubashi University Alumni
may refer to: *Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, a place in Chiyoda, Tokyo *Hitotsubashi Group, a publishing ''keiretsu'' *Hitotsubashi University is a national university located in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda. One of the top 9 Designated National University in Japan, Hitotsubashi is a relatively small institution specialized solely in social sciences ... * Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa, a branch of the Tokugawa Clan * Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu (Keiki), the last shōgun {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1874 Births
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1906 Deaths
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Japanese Farmers
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Sadatsuchi Uchida
was a Japanese diplomat. Assigned to postings in the United States and Brazil, Uchida was instrumental in facilitating improved Japanese trade relations and emigration to both countries. Uchida also served as the first consul in Korea. Early life and diplomatic career A law graduate of the Tokyo Imperial University, Uchida joined the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1889. He was appointed as an Eleve-Consul to Shanghai in 1890, Consul to Seoul in 1893 and in 1902 was reassigned to serve as Consul General in New York City. Rice cultivation in Southeast Texas In 1902, Uchida toured the Gulf Coast region of the United States. At the time, overpopulation and the limited usable land for farming was affecting Japan. In the United States, rice farming was still in its infancy, and local rice production was falling short of its full potential. Consul General Uchida met with officials from the Texas Governor’s office, business owners in Houston, and other community leaders who gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kichimatsu Kishi
Kichimatsu Kishi (岸 吉松 ''Kishi Kichimatsu'', ?–1956) was a Japanese immigrant to the United States who worked as a farmer and businessman. Along with fellow immigrants from Japan, his impact on rice farming in the southern United States would change the agricultural industry of the region. Kishi would establish an agricultural colony in Southeast Texas and would own an oil company. Born as one of eight children to a Japanese banker, he attended Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan, but was taken from his studies in 1904 to fight in the Russo-Japanese War. He was eventually sent to Manchuria on the mainland of China where he remained until the Japanese victory in 1905. He considered remaining there, but the high cost of land and lawlessness prompted him to return to his homeland. Years earlier, Sadatsuchi Uchida (Japan’s consul to the United States) toured the southern United States in 1902. Uchida reported back to Japan with promising news that the rice farming was u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Japanese In Houston
This article discusses Japanese Americans and Japanese citizens in Houston and Greater Houston. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 3,566 people of Japanese descent in Harris County, making up 1.3% of the Asians in the county. In 1990 there were 3,425 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 3.1% of the county's Asians, and in 2000 there were 3,574 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 1.9% of the county's Asians.Klineberg and Wu, p. 12. Patsy Yoon Brown, the director of the Japan-America Society of Houston (JASH, ヒューストン日米協会 ''Hyūsuton Nichibei Kyōkai''), stated in 2013 that the Japanese American community in Houston had about 3,000 people, and that, as paraphrased by Minh Dam of the ''Houston Chronicle'', is "a relatively small number compared to other Asian-American communities in the area".Dam, Minh.Japanese community feeling right at home" ''Houston Chronicle''. April 14, 2013. Updated April 15, 2013. Retrieved on February 17, 2015. Print version: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
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Garden Villas, Houston
Garden Villas is a subdivision in Houston, Texas, United States. Garden Villas is north of Hobby Airport on the banks of Sims Bayou. - Section ThisWeek, Page 1 () The lots range from one-half acre to over . Most homes in the subdivision were built in the 1930s and 1940s, but construction continued through the 1950s, and the area was largely built out by the end of the decade. There are a few homes that were built in the 1980s and even the late 1990s. History W.T. Carter, Jr.,Fox, Stephen.Garden Villas An Architectural Tour"Archive ''Cite''. Northern Hemisphere Spring-Summer 1988. Retrieved on June 1, 2012. a River Oaks developer, platted Garden Villas in 1926 and planted nearly 6,000 pecan trees in the neighborhood. An Englishman and Rice Institute graduate, Edward Wilkinson, worked as the staff architect of Garden Villas. The neighborhood was platted before the city purchased the land now occupied by Hobby Airport. In 2007 the civic club established a revitalization program. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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