When Onome arrived, he was disturbed by the huge pay disparity between Japanese laborers and the Immigration Bureau staff.
It also didn't help that the head of the organization, Joji Nakayama, always sided with the plantation owners in exchange for extra compensation, earning $6,000 per year.
[2] It was a weekly publication that helped workers stand up to the Immigration Bureau and plantation owners.
The Bureau was embarrassed by the exposure of their corruption, but continued to operate at the number of immigrant laborers on private (rather than government) contracts increased.
He moved to Keaʻau on Hawaii Island and started a coffee farm that covered several hundred acres.