Mitsuru Kojima

Mitsuru "Mitch" Kojima (b. 1934) was child of Japanese ancestry living in Wahiawa, Hawaii when the Empire of Japan conquered the islands in 1941-42. He was a student in Jane Armitage's third-grade class. Like many Japanese-Americans, he had an Anglo-Saxon nickname.

In the spring of 1942, Jane was working in her garden when young Mitsuru rode up on his bike. Greeting him by his nickname, Jane was rebuffed when he corrected her, commanding her to use his full first name.