Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Nakayama, Goro November 1, 1874 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

GORO NAKAYAMA, Banker. Goro Nakayama, vice-president and manger of the 
Sumitomo Bank of Hawaii, Ltd., is president of the International Trust Co., 
Ltd., president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu and one of the 
leading Japanese citizens residing in Hawaii.
  Mr. Nakayama was born in Sasayama, Japan, Nov. 1, 1874, the son of Eiken and 
Tatsu Nakayama and a descendant of a long line of warriors under Aoyama Clan. 
His early education was obtained in the high school of Sasayama and the 
College of Commerce in Tokyo. He joined the Mitsui Trading Co., one of the 
largest commercial concerns in Japan, and spent four years as a clerk in 
Shanghai and Bombay.
  While in China and India, Mr. Nakayama saved money to complete his 
education, and in 1904 went to America and entered the University of 
Wisconsin. He specialized in political economy in the seminary of Prof. Dr. 
Richard T. Ely and in 1906 was granted a M. A. degree. He then traveled 
extensively through America, Canada and Europe, and returned to Japan and 
joined the main office of the Sumitomo Bank in Osaka in 1909, on the staff of 
its Foreign Department.
  In 1915 he was transferred to Yanai branch of the bank as manager, and in 
1919 was sent to Honolulu as manager of the Sumitomo Bank of Hawaii, Ltd.
  Mr. Nakayama is a member of the Honolulu Auto, Honolulu Ad, Honolulu Golf, 
Pan-Pacific, and the Hawaiian Trail and Mountain clubs. In 1904 he married 
Suye Kanoh of Kagoshima and they had four sons, Takashi, Masura, Akio and 
Yasumi Nakayama, all studying in Japan except Masura, who has come to Hawaii 
and attends Punahou School, Honolulu. Mrs. Nakayama died in 1916, and the 
following year Mr. Nakayama married his present wife, Fuji Yui of Kochi, 
Japan. They have two sons and two daughters, Kazuyo, Sonoko, Yashima and 
Natsuko Nakayama, all residing in Hawaii.


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