Harry Minoru Urata (浦田ハリー實) (1917 – October 23, 2009) was a music teacher best known for preserving the Holehole bushi, a type of folk song sung by Japanese immigrants in Hawaii's sugar plantations.
After his father died in a car accident, Urata was sent to Japan in 1924 to be raised by his relatives in Kumamoto prefecture.
Soon after he was admitted into the University of Hawaii, Pearl Harbor was attacked and World War II began in the Pacific.
He sold newspapers for a while, then was hired to do Japanese music programming at KULA, a local radio station.
[1][3] He then studied with Masao Koga in Japan for a year and a half before starting his own music studio, where he taught hundreds of students.