Paternal side - Ennis / Maternal side - Yamamoto My grandfather Noah Ennis. Great grandparents Ennis. Yamada family at the Otemachi residence in Kokura. Unfortunately the residence was destroyed during the war. From the right, Yamada, his oldest son unknown (died early?), Chiyoko, Yoko, Hiroshi (died early from TB), Toyoko, Harue holding Yuko, wife of oldest son unknown. Otemachi residence- unknown man in suit, Hiroshi, unknown eldest son and second son, Harue and Yuko, unkn

Great grandparents My moms dad was named Noah Ennis. A while back I did some research on Ancestry to see how far back I can go to trace his side of the family. More recently we retraced our steps again during our visit to Irelands EPIC museum. My grandfather Noah Ennis

My mom had always wanted to go to Ireland. She was told by her father that the Ennis were from Irish heritage. Her wish finally came true this year. It was a large group of us, so we arranged a tour package with our own personal driver. The Onizuka's departed from LAX, all 11 of us. My sister in law's parents met us in Dublin. The Aer Lingus flight there was around 9 hours. It was a long flight, and it gets harder as you get older. Getting through immigration was painless, an

My dad visited in March 2025. This is where my grandfather was a member. mojigolf.co.jp The Moji Golf Club is the oldest golf course in Fukuoka Prefecture, founded in 1934, and it is a traditional golf course where businessmen and businessmen from the northern Kyushu region have been members since its founding. The current clubhouse was built in 1960. The designer is Antonin Raymond from the Czech Republic, and the implementation is Takenaka Engineering. Raymond came to Japan

My dad went to a game at Kokura baseball stadium in March 2025. Start of the game Cheer team called “ou-en-dan” in Japanese 応援団 The high school cheer teams are pretty animated as you can see in this clip here. https://youtu.be/M3e8M6HHfCI?feature=shared https://youtu.be/xm4qjb1_ELs?feature=shared Post game

Paternal Side - Onizuka / Maternal Side - Shibata My grandfather's family was from Nakatsu in Oita prefecture. His father was a carpenter, and he apparently fell off the roof of a temple while he was working and died. The temple is called Myorenji and it was built about 600 years ago. The current jyushoku 住職（じゅうしょく）there is the 27th generation monk in charge of the temple! My dad visited in 2024 with his brother and talked to the current monk. The current monk at the temple k

Burial Mound in Kibi Plains, Okayama taken during my cycling tour around Japan 2014. There are several Onizuka 鬼塚 kofun 古墳 burial mounds located throughout Kyushu island in Japan. The reason why they were named this way got me a curious and so I have been researching possible reasons why the name 鬼塚 was commonly used to name these kofun burial mounds. It seems strange to name burial mounds after a mythical demon like figure. My very short and unreliable research (which you ca

-Early Life- Although I never met my granddad, it's obvious that he was an athlete. He was born 1907 in Nakatsu, Oita. His father Kichijiro was 55 years old when he died during a job accident building a temple in Nakatsu. That temple is called Myorenji and it still exists today. Not much is known about his mother Yuwa other than he wrote that she was from Shimata, Nakatsu and she came from a farming family. In his book he writes that growing up he loved sumo wrestling, runnin

Coincidence or destiny? My 2023 trip to Japan included taking the Matsuura Testudo Line from Sasebo. The original plan was to take it to...