Chiyoko Mizutani Aug. 6, 1924 – Dec. 16, 2019 MIZUTANI, CHIYOKO, 95, passed away on December 16, 2019 in San Francisco, CA. Born on August 6, 1924 in Walnut Grove, CA, she was eldest of three children of Zentaro and Takino Mizutani of Aichi, Japan. At age 7, the sudden death of her father prompted […]
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OBITUARY: Robert Yoshikazu Nakaji
January 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Robert Yoshikazu Nakaji May 5, 1934 – January 10, 2020 NAKAJI, ROBERT YOSHIKAZU, resided in the Almaden Valley in San Jose, CA for over 4 decades. Bob was born on May 5, 1934 in San Luis Obispo, CA. He graduated from James Lick High School in 1952. He served in the US Army in Korea […]
OBITUARY: Mitzi Michiko Yorichi
January 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Mitzi Michiko Yorichi YORICHI, MITZI MICHIKO, 95, suddenly passed away on December 1, 2019 at Marin General Hospital. She was born in Nara, Japan and attended the prestigious Osaka Shoin Women’s College. After the war she met and married Alex Yorichi, a US Army soldier in Tokyo. Their growing family moved to numerous duty stations […]
OBITUARY: Mary Fujimoto
January 16, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Mary Fujimoto June 7, 1921 – Dec. 8, 2019 FUJIMOTO, MARY, 98, was born in Hood River, Oregon to Tomoichi and Masae Hirasawa. She was the oldest of three daughters. She graduated from Odell High School. She married Harvey Fujimoto in 1941, and their marriage lasted until his death in 1997. They settled in Sacramento […]
OBITUARY: Richard Seiichi Endo
January 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Richard Seiichi Endo May 29, 1938 – Dec. 28, 2019 ENDO, RICHARD SEIICHI, 81, passed away peacefully on December 28, 2019 after a quick and sudden decline due to leukemia. He was the dearly loved and devoted husband of Emilie, father of Traci (Mike) Inouye and Christine (Hideki) Hirabayashi and Jichan to Mason, Kendall, Emi, […]
OBITUARY: Toshiko Furuichi Kawamoto
January 2, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Toshiko Furuichi Kawamoto Apr. 4, 1927 – Dec. 21, 2019 KAWAMOTO, TOSHIKO FURUICHI, 92, a California native and long-time Cupertino resident, passed away peacefully on December 21. Raised in Los Altos, she grew up on her family’s farm that would become the Furuichi Bros. Los Altos Nursery. The family was interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. […]
Wat Misaka, who broke professional basketball’s color barrier, dies
December 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Wataru “Wat” Misaka, the first person of color to play in professional basketball when he broke the color barrier in 1947, died Nov. 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 95. A 5-foot-7-inch guard, Misaka was a legend on the basketball court. He led Weber Junior College to two ICAC junior college titles in […]
‘Ultimate volunteer,’ JACL’s Greg Marutani, dies
December 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Greg Marutani, 72, of San Francisco, died Nov. 27, 2019, the Japanese American Citizens League said in a statement. The civil rights organization recognized the longtime chair of their National Education Committee at the 2019 JACL Convention in Salt Lake City. “Marutani was instrumental in training hundreds of teachers on how to utilize the story […]
OBITUARY: Misao Otsuki
December 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment
OTSUKI, MISAO, 92, passed away peacefully at her home in San Francisco on October 22, 2019. She was born in 1926 in Turlock, California to Yonehichi and Suye Sugiura, the second of eight children. In 1942 at the start of WWII her family was sent to the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. There she met […]
OBITUARY: Diane Sakaye Nakano
November 21, 2019 by Leave a Comment
NAKANO, DIANE SAKAYE, 95, of SF passed peacefully on Nov 3, 2019. Born on Sept 16, 1924 in Colusa, CA, she spent her childhood in Hiroshima and teenage yrs in Stockton until imprisoned during WWII at Gila River, AZ. Upon release, Diane moved to SF where she married and raised 4 children. Diane is preceded […]
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