Harvey Saburo Hayashi

Harvey Saburo Hayashi(林 三郎) (February 22, 1867 – June 1, 1943) was a Japanese doctor who practiced in Kona, Hawaii. He started a local newspaper, the Kona Echo.

Early life and education

Hayashi was born in Fukushima, Japan in 1867 to a samurai family in the Aizu-Wakamatsu clan. He graduated from Aomori Prefectural Medical School in 1884, then moved to America, where he was a migrant worker until he saved up enough money for medical school, since he came to America against his father's wishes and therefore didn't have financial support. Hayashi studied at the Hahnemann Medical College in San Francisco.[1] During medical school he was nicknamed "Harvey" after William Harvey, because his professors had a hard time with "Saburo".[2]

After he graduated in 1891, Hayashi opened up a practice in Sacramento. In 1893, he moved to Honomu in the Big Island of Hawaii's Kona district at the invitation of Jiro Okabe.[1] In 1895, he married Matsu Kawarada, and during their lives they had twelve children.[2]

Kona

Hayashi opened a practice in Honomu when he first arrived in Hawaii, but he soon moved it to Kailua-Kona.[3]

In 1897, Hayashi started the Kona Echo (コナ反響), Kona's first newspaper and Hawaii's second Japanese language newspaper.[4] He and his family worked together to publish it twice a week, though its publication decreased in frequency until it published bimonthly for the last ten years of its existence.[5] The Japanese section was discontinued in 1940, and the entire newspaper folded in 1941.[6]

Hayashi was a major figure in the Kona Japanese community. He helped to establish the Japanese cemetery in 1896, then he founded the Japanese language school in Holualoa in 1898. It was an independent language school that wasn't affiliated with a religion, as many Japanese language schools were at the time.[7] Hayashi's wife, Matsu, taught at the school until a full-time teacher (Sukezo Takeda) was hired.[8] He later also founded the Kona Japanese Benevolent Association.[2]

Hayashi died on June 1, 1943, and was buried at Central Kona Union Church.[2]

Further reading
  • Nakano, Jiro (1990). Kona echo : a biography of Dr. Harvey Saburo Hayashi. Kona: Kona Historical Society.

Selected bibliography
  • Hayashi, Saburo (1909). Hawai Jitsugyo Annai [ハワイ実業案内] [A guide to business in Hawaii]. Kona.
  • Hayashi, Saburo (1925). Hawaito Ishu [布哇島一周] [One time around Hawaii Island]. Kona: Kona Hankyosha.

References
  1. Okihiro, Michael (2002). "Japanese Doctors in Hawai'i". Hawaiian Journal of History. 36. hdl:10524/629.
  2. Japanese American history : an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present. Niiya, Brian., Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.). New York: Facts on File. 1993. ISBN 0816026807. OCLC 26853950.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. 高木, 眞理子. "俳句・短歌から見る日系移民の姿 (1930年'"'-'1960年) : ハワイ島を中心に" (PDF). 愛知学院大学文学部紀要. 37.
  4. The Columbia documentary history of the Asian American experience. Odo, Franklin. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. ISBN 0231110308. OCLC 50747056.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. Mitsugu, Matsuda; M., Ogawa, Dennis; Y., Fujioka, Jerry; Center, Japanese American Research (1975). "The Japanese in Hawaii : an annotated bibliography of Japanese Americans". hdl:10125/42154. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. "Kona Hankyō — Browse by title — Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection". hojishinbun.hoover.org. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  7. A Guide to old Kona. Kona Historical Society. Kalukalu, Hawai'i: The Society. 1998. ISBN 082482010X. OCLC 39267946.CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. 1903-, Kimura, Yukiko (1992). Issei : Japanese immigrants in Hawaii (Paperback ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824814819. OCLC 37566798.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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