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Note: REFN6 NOTE: Hatsuichi IKEDA is the last IKEDA in this family line. He had
several children, but only five daughters survived and married.
Hatsuichi IKEDA owned an aircraft hardware manufacturing plant located in
Tamatsukuri, Osaka City, Japan. He had his business in the same area
where he
lived and raised his family of five daughters.
IKEDA lived well, he had servants and all of the modern conveniences of
the time. However in March of 1945, his business and home were destroyed
by fires caused by bombs dropped on the deity during World War II.
Fortunately he and his family escaped without injury, but they
had to flee from Osaka and return to the small village of
Kumano (the village of his youth) near Fukuyama City located
in Hiroshima Prefecture. Kumano was approximately fifty miles from
Hiroshima City where the first atomic bomb was dropped to end the war.
From this point on, the IKEDA family had to start life over from scratch.
It was devastating and very traumatic for the family to endure the
transition from being well-off to the point of not being able to eat
rice except that which was mixed with oats.
In later years, the children all finished school, got married, had
families
of their own, and relocated once more to Osaka and nearby Kobe City.
However,
Hatsuichi IKEDA never returned to Osaka. He suffered severe strokes which paralized portions of his body and finally passed away in 1961. He was
buried in the IKEDA family cemetery near his childhood home in Kumano.
In 1987, the remains of Hatsuichi IKEDA and his direct line ancestors were
relocated from the IKEDA family cemetery in Kumano Village, Hiroshima Ken,
to a new family plot in Sumiyoshi Cemetery in Okamoto, Kobe City, Hyogo
Ken,
Japan.
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