1904 during a trip to the World's Fair, returned there in 1906. After he died in an accident that year, the Santa Fe railroad officials renamed the railroad stop in his community from Erin Station to "Mykawa" and Mykawa Road received its name from Mykawa. Okasaki later began a rice farming operation by 1907, established two more restaurants including one Japanese restaurant, and in 1911 established the Japan Art and Tea Company. After World War I the price of rice fell. Existing Japanese residents lobbied for, and received, exceptions from a law which disallowed land ownership by Japanese people that was passed in the 1920s. The Japanese owners of the Webster farming colony lost much of their land during the Great Depression. Thomas K. Walls, the author of the book The Japanese Texans, stated that Japanese Texans, including Japanese Houstonians, were generally treated well, unlike Japanese in California. Texas was not in proximity to the anti-Japanese attitudes in California. Karkabi wrote "The World War II years were one of the few times Japanese-Texans encountered problems." Abbie Salyers Grubb, author of "From "Tom Brown" to Mykawa Road: The Impact of the Japanese American Community of Houston in the Twentieth Century," wrote that compared to other American cities, "Houston did not see as much racial prejudice" targeting ethnic Japanese. Japanese business owners, including Okasaki, changed business names that reflected Japanese origin; Okasaki changed his restaurant's name to "U.S. Café". After the war ended, Okasaki went back to Japan. For a period the place Mykawa had a community of Japanese rice farmers. John M. Moore of the Houston Post said that it "seems to be" that salt water and waste oil introduced by a nearby oil field destroyed some rice field crops cultivated by the Japanese farmers, causing them to leave the area before World War II; Moore said that area residents erroneously believed that the farmers left as a result of World War II. By 1951 the nearest Japanese farmers were located near Minnetex. During that year many of the Japanese farmers formerly in Mykawa resided in north Harris County. In 1957 reporters from The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Saibara's son Kiyoaki and his wife Takako. In 1974 the state of Texas erected a historical marker on Old Galveston Road that commemorated the Saibara family. The City of Webster named a road "M Kobayashi Road" after rice farmer Mitsutaro Kobayashi. In 1960 the