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Niihau Incident— results in the issue of EO 9066 The?Niihau Incident?(or?Battle of Niihau) occurred on December 7, 1941，when?Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service?pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi crash-landed his Zero on the Hawaiian island of Niihau?after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The incident and the actions of Nishikaichis abettors contributed to a sense in the American military that every Japanese, even those who were American citizens or otherwise thought loyal to the United States, might aid Japan, ultimately resulting in the internment of Japanese Americans during?World War II, according to EO 9066. Niihau, the westernmost and second smallest of the primary?Hawaiian Islands,has been privately owned by the Robinsons, a white kama’aina?family,since 1864. At the time of the incident, it had 136 inhabitants, almost all of whom were?Native Hawaiians?,whose first language was?Hawaiian. In 1941 the owner was?Aylmer Robinson, a?Harvard University?graduate who was fluent in Hawaiian. Robinson ran the island without interference from any government authority, and although he lived on the nearby island of?Kauai, he made weekly visits by boat to Niihauans. Niihau Island was only accessible with permission from Robinson, which was almost never given except to friends or relatives of Niihauans. The handful of non-native residents included three of Japanese extraction:?issei?Ishimatsu Shintani and Hawaiian-born?nisei?Yoshio and Irene Harada, all of whom became involved in the incident. On December 7, 1941, Airman First Class Shigenori Nishikaichi (age 21/22), who had just taken part in the second wave of the Pearl Harbor attack, crash-landed his bullet-damaged plane, an?A6M2?Zero B11-120 from the carrier?Hiryu, in a Niihau field 19 feet from where Hawila·Kaleohano (1912-1986), a native Hawaiian resident, was standing.[1]?Kaleohano was unaware of the attack at?Pearl Harbor, but knew from newspapers that the relationship between the U.S. and Japan was poor due t