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Tomie Katsuda - Rafu Shimpo (opens the original)
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Tomie (Murahashi) Katsuda passed away peacefully on August 29, 2026, at the age of 106. Tomie was born on February 4, 1920, in Laguna, California. At a young age, she was sent to Mie-ken, Japan, for her education. On January 18, 1937, she married Lester Kiyosu Katsuda. Both Tomie and Lester were Kibei and raised in the same village in Mie-ken. They returned to the United States after their wedding in order to start their life together in Venice, California. Their daughter Suzy was born in 1941.
Kenji Miyamoto - Rafu Shimpo (opens the original)
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Kenji Miyamoto passed away peacefully, surrounded by the love of his family. A private service was held on August 27 at Rose Hills Graveside in Whittier. Born the youngest of three brothers, Kenji attended Belvedere Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, and Garfield High School, where he earned First Team All-Eastern League basketball honors in 1965. He graduated from Los Angeles State College with a degree in business accounting after serving honorably in the United States Marine Cor
Shigenobu “Shig” Fukutomi - Rafu Shimpo (opens the original)
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Shigenobu “Shig” Fukutomi passed away peacefully at the age of 100. Shig was born on April 9, 1926, in Roscoe, California, to Isaburo Fukutomi and Tatsu Hamada. A Nisei, he grew up in Southern California and worked on the family farm during his youth. During World War II, Shig was incarcerated at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona. He later worked at a War Food Administration (WFA) labor camp in Caldwell, Idaho, before being inducted into the United States Army on February 2, 1945. He e
Shigeru Ochi - Rafu Shimpo (opens the original)
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Shigeru “Shig” grew up in East Los Angeles during the Great Depression. He was a senior in high school when our country was drawn into World War II. He and his family were ordered by the federal government out of their home to Manzanar concentration camp; they were forced to abandon anything they could not carry. Shig loved learning and recognized the immense power of education to transform lives; he was able to be released from Manzanar and attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. When Sh
Henry Horie - Rafu Shimpo (opens the original)
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Henry Horie, beloved husband, brother, father, grandfather and friend, passed away in July 2026. He was 99 years old. Henry was born in April 1927 in Torrance, California to Sukesaburo and Kame Horie, immigrants from Japan. Henry was first-generation Japanese American. At the start of WWII, his father was arrested by the FBI and separated from family. Henry, his mother and sister, Sakiyo were sent to the internment camp in Jerome, Arkansas. The father joined the family in Crystal City, Texas, at
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