Mary Hosokawa Takai TAKAI, MARY passed away peacefully on May 16, 2020 with her family by her side. She was 97 years old and a resident of Pacheco, CA. Devoted wife for sixty years of the late Lt. Col Roy T. Takai, she was the beloved mother to five children, seven grandchildren and two great […]
Obituaries
OBITUARY: Nancy Nobuko Inouye
May 21, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Nancy Nobuko Inouye July 19, 1933 – March 19, 2020 INOUYE, NANCY NOBUKO passed away peacefully at age 86 on March 19, 2020 in Fresno, CA. She privately and bravely fought her illness with leukemia for over three years without much burden to others of her constant pain. Born July 19, 1933 and lived most […]
OBITUARY: Kiyoshi Glenn Onizuka
May 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Kiyoshi Glenn Onizuka Aug. 8, 1930 – Feb. 27, 2020 ONIZUKA, KIYOSHI GLENN was born in Stockton, CA and attended elementary school there until World War II when he and his family were removed and relocated to a Japanese American internment camp in Rohwer Arkansas. Alongside approximately 120,000 people of Japanese Ancestry who were placed […]
OBITUARY: Mikiko Eto
April 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Mikiko Eto Sep. 14, 1919 – March 23, 2020 ETO, MIKIKO was born on Sep. 14, 1919 in Castroville, CA and passed away suddenly, but peacefully at her home in Campbell, CA on Mar. 23, 2020 at the age of 100. Preceded in death by her husband, Tom; siblings Michio Abe, Miyoko Yuki, and Hideo Abe; […]
OBITUARY: Amy Oishi Takaki
April 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Amy Oishi Takaki June 29, 1915 – Jan. 25, 2020 TAKAKI, AMY OISHI, 104, a longtime resident of Berkeley, California died peacefully in her Berkeley home on January 25, 2020. Her parents were the late Seizo and Rui Oishi, founders of the Oishi Nursery in Richmond, California. Preceding her in death were her siblings: Mitzi […]
OBITUARY: Kiyo Yamamoto
April 23, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Kiyo Yamamoto March 19, 1924 – March 7, 2020 YAMAMOTO, KIYO “KAY”, 95, of Oakland, CA, passed away surrounded by her family on March 7, 2020, twelve days short of her 96th birthday. Born in Honolulu, HI she grew up in Southern California, one of six Ikeda sisters. She was the last of the surviving […]
Hatsy Yasukochi, respected S.F. J-Town business owner, passes
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Noted San Francisco Japantown business owner, Hatsuye “Hatsy” Yasukochi, passed away from the coronavirus in the early morning of March 27, 2020. She was 80. Yasukochi was born March 7, 1940 in Oakland, Calif. She grew up in Concord, Calif. and graduated from Mount Diablo High School in 1958. She attended San Francisco State University. […]
Cedrick Shimo, WWII military resister and Honda exec, dies at 100
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Cedrick Masaki Shimo, a World War II military resister and an executive at American Honda Motors, USA, passed away peacefully on April 1, 2020. He was 100. Shimo was the only child born to Tamori and Yoshiko Urakami Shimo, both from Okayama, Japan, in Heber, Calif., in the Imperial Valley. At the time, his father […]
Irene Hirano Inouye, head of U.S.-Japan Council dies
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) — Irene Hirano Inouye, head of the U.S.-Japan Council and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, died April 7 in Los Angeles following an extended illness, the council said April 8. She was 71. Born in Los Angeles, she was also president and founding CEO of the Japanese American National Museum […]
OBITUARY: George M. Okada
April 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
George M. Okada Dec. 30, 1928 – Feb. 18, 2020 OKADA, GEORGE M, 91, passed away peacefully on February 18, 2020 at his home. He was the third son of Chiochi and Sono Okada. He was born and raised in San Francisco. George and his family were interned at Topaz, Utah in 1943. He was drafted […]
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