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Keisaburo became widely known among
Japanese Americans as the “Rice King.” The outbreak of war with Japan in 1941 led to passage of Executive Order 9066 which relocated Americans of Japanese descent to internment centers away from the West Coast. After receiving notification of their relocation to Amache, Colorado, the Koda family planned to close their operation until they could return. The United States government, however, mandated that their business be kept running to produce food and fiber. This forced Keisaburo to entrust management to strangers since his friends on neighboring farms were busy overseeing their own operations during the wartime agricultural boom.
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Naturalization Rights League and served as president. Also in the late 1940s, he helped start a Japanese American owned and operated insurance company to provide full coverage to Americans of Japanese descent. Recognizing the need for equal treatment in banking, Keisaburo was instrumental in opening California's first Bank of Tokyo branch of which he became a founding director in 1952.
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Company near San Pedro to process the catch of 39 Japanese
American commercial vessels. After selling the tuna cannery he founded Golden West Canning Company in Los Angeles to process vegetables. Keisaburo eventually sold this business to pursue farming in Sutter County and revisit his familial roots in rice, leasing land in the Knight's Landing area in the late 1910s.
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mile from their original homestead and gradually repurchased landholdings. In the late 1940s, the Koda brothers took note of an unfulfilled market niche for “sweet rice.” They became the first commercial growers of sweet rice in
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American Citizens League), the nation's oldest and largest Asian American civil rights group. He launched the People's Rights Protection Association in 1945 specifically to lobby against the notorious
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Approximately ten years later, a rice-breeding program was established at the farm that resulted in a unique variety of rice that
Keisaburo named Kokuho Rose®. In 1963, Kokuho Rose was introduced to the domestic market as the first premium “medium” grain rice. Unique in appearance as well as flavor,
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Japanese Americans were freed from the internment camps, the Koda family immediately headed back to Dos Palos to see what had become of their farm. They returned to find it stripped bare. Land, dryer, mill, mechanized equipment and planes had been liquidated, along with their homes and livestock
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Keisaburo's sons. Edward (Ed was enrolled at UC Berkeley, but never returned to complete his undergraduate degree) and William (Bill completed his undergraduate at UC Davis before the internment) built another processing facility a quarter
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California in 1908, Keisaburo undertook numerous ventures. Early on, he wildcatted for oil in the Coalinga hills, he ran a tuna canning company in San Pedro and he opened a chain of laundry shops. With a handful of partners, Keisaburo established North America Tuna Canning
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Joaquin Valley town of Dos Palos in central California to start a new farming venture. Keisaburo formed State Farming Co., Inc. with his American-born children as stockholders to comply with the Alien Land Law of 1913. This law denied
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An innovator in the rice industry, Keisaburo helped pioneer rice growing techniques such as sowing seed with airplanes. By the early 1940s, his integrated farming operation included a modern rice dryer and mill that allowed complete quality control from seed to store shelf. Due to his success,
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Founder of present-day Koda Farms, Keisaburo Koda was born in 1882 with roots in the town of Ogawa in the Fukushima prefecture of Japan. His father was a samurai of the Taira Clan, but later became an established miller and broker of rice and rice flour. As a young man, Keisaburo attained a
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In the early 1950s, to promote better relations between the United States and Japan, Keisaburo established the California Farming Trainees and the Japanese Farming Youth programs that brought Japanese trainees to the United States to study American agriculture.
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