History of Japanese Americans in Texas: The Kishi Colony

The Kishi Colony

Introduction

• Kishi in Japan
• Opportunity in America
• Kishi Colony Purchase

Early Colony

• Conversion to Truck Farming
• Discovery of Oil
• Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• K. Kishi vs. Humble Oil Company
• Colony Management

Terry Community

• Financial Distress
• Japanese-Soviet Petroleum Company

World War II

Postlude

Taro Kishi (1903 - 1993)

Taro Kishi's Childhood

• Immigration to Texas

Texas A&M

Uncle Taro and Aunt Liz

Vidor Methodist Church

Final Years

Kishi Colony Legacies

The Kishi Cemetery

Texas Historical Marker

Email Correspondence on The Orange Petroleum Company

Article on Taro Kishi at A&M as a Football Player

Correspondence between Taro Kishi and His Father