Wailuku in Maui County, Hawaii — Hawaiian Island Archipelago (Pacific Ocean)

Maui Nisei Veteran KIAs

Listed below are Nisei Veterans who died in combat in Europe during WWII

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1. Maui Nisei Veteran KIAs Marker

Inscription.
Ajitomi, Matsuei • Ajitomi, Tokio • Arakawa, Jentoku Harold • Asato, Shotaro Harry • Chinen, Giichi • Fujii, Richard Toshio • Fujiyama, Takeo • Fukeda, Akira Wallace • Furukawa, Satoshi • Goya, Yeiko • Hamada, Tetsuo • Hamamoto, Katsuyoshi • Hanida, Tamotsu • Hayashida, Hideyuki • Higashi, Harold Tanoshi • Hirano, Robert Rikio • Hisano, Masao • Hotta, Kihachiro • Ikeda, William Yoshio • Ikehara, Henry Shinkichi • Iriguchi, Tadayoshi • Jichaku, Thomas Munemasa • Jinnohara, Katsui • Kametani, Shinobu • Kanemitsu, Katsuhiro

Kaneshiro, Yasuo • Karimoto, Haruo • Katayama, Noritada • Kawahara, Richard Hiroo • Kawakami, Tetsuro • Kawamoto, Sadao • Kijima, Tadashi • Kina, Shomatsu E. • Koito, Sadamu • Kubo, Tadashi • Maehara, Saburo • Magarifuji, Richard Keiji • Masuda, Yoshito • Matsui, Masao • Miyasato, Isami • Miyoga, Tsuyoshi • Morikawa, Hiromu • Murakami, Toshio • Naganuma, Martin M. • Nagata, Hideo • Nakamoto, Joe Kiyoichi • Nakamura, Edward Etsuzo • Nakamura, Kosei • Nishihara, Kazuo • Nishikawa, Akio

Nishimura, Shigeki

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• Noda, Sueo • Oba, Masayoshi • Oba, Sanichi George • Ogata, Fred Shiogi • Okamoto, Tomiso • Onaga, Takeyasu Thomas • Oshiro, Choyei • Oshiro, Sam Yasuichi • Oshiro, Wallace Hideo • Otake, Masanao Russel • Otani, Douglas Kazumi • Oyabu, Harumatsu • Riyu, Masatsugu • Sadayasu, Herbert Kazuo • Saiki, Masami • Sakamoto, Louis Kahaulelio • Sasaki, Fred Yoshio • Shigeta, Hideo • Shigihara, Takeshi • Shimabuku, Roy Kokichi • Shimizu, Takeo • Shirokane, Kizo • Suda, David Isami • Suwa, Nobuyuki

Suzawa, Jiro • Taguchi, Hitoshi Bob • Takei, Yoshinobu • Takeo, Robert Masaru • Tamanaha, Masao H. • Tanimoto, Teruto • Tanouye, Katsushi • Tateyama, Haruyoshi H. • Tengan, Masaru • Tengwan, Yoshio • Teruya, Kenkichi Kenneth • Tomita, Hiroichi • Tomita, Isami • Tomita, Nobuaki • Tonai, Taro • Tosaka, Minoru • Toyama, Shinsuke • Wasano, Shigeo • Watanabe, Kiyotoshi • Yagi, Steve Seiko • Yamada, Hideo • Yamashiro, Lei Seijiro • Yasuhira, Arata • Yasui, Yoji • Yonamine, Hideo (Fuku) • Yoshigai, Mitsuichi

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic

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2. Maui Nisei Veteran KIAs Marker

lists: Asian Americans • War, World II.

Location. 20° 54.077′ N, 156° 28.955′ W. Memorial is in Wailuku, Hawaii, in Maui County. It can be reached from Kahului Beach Road (Hawaii Route 3400) south of Lower Main Street, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 665 Kahului Beach Rd, Wailuku HI 96793, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Lahaina and West Maui.

Globally, it is in North America,

in Polynesia,

in the Pacific Ocean,

in North Pacific,

on the Pacific Rim,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Haleki'i and Pihanakalani Heiaus (approx. 0.6 miles away); A Place to Find the Real Hawaii (approx. 0.7 miles away); St. Anthony Church Catholic Cemetery (approx. 1.1 miles away); Corliss Steam Engine (approx. 2.8 miles away); Caterpillar 772B (approx. 2.8 miles away); Northwest Cable Crane (approx. 2.8 miles away); Try Pot (approx. 2.8 miles

Ruins Located Nearby image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Craig Baker, April 9, 2026

3. Ruins Located Nearby

Remnants of a Kahului Railroad rock-crushing plant that operated from 1921 to 1946 when the facility was damaged by a tsunami after a magnitude 8.6 quake off Alaska that killed 159 people in Hawaii.

away); Traditional Portuguese Oven (approx. 2.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wailuku.

Credits. This page was last revised on April 12, 2026. It was originally submitted on June 2, 2025. This page has been viewed 280 times since then and 56 times this year. Last updated on June 4, 2025. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 2, 2025. 3. submitted on April 12, 2026, by Craig Baker of Sylmar, California. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.