Jiro Takahashi (born 1886) was a Japanese-born fisherman from Yamaguchi Prefecture who emigrated to Hawaii at the turn of the century. He never took to the American lifestyle, as he was suspicious of its culture, and he never learned English. He was disappointed with how immersed in American culture his sons Hiroshi and Kenzo had become by 1941. He and his wife, Reiko, maintained their sense of themselves as Japanese and citizens of Japan.