was promoted to shihan or master teacher by the Aikido Foundation.

She passed the California State Bar in 1985.She helped us at the Stamp Our Story Committee since 2018.

Send videos or written messages to wyamashi@gmail.Iwata served on the planning committee to rename the West Justice Center in Westminster in honor of Stephen K.France Wong and Dulcie Kawata volunteer during Mochi Madness at Fugetsu-Do in Little Tokyo in 2018.

Derek founded a tourism company.Iwata lost her mother one year after a surprise kidney cancer diagnosis at the age of 52 in 1986.

She was married to Steve Yamashita from 1988 to 2020.

and she supported them in all their endeavors.He and Janet counted out all that spare change from the piggy bank fundraisers.

(Courtesy of Howard Nakagiri)Sakahara — called Saki in the Air Force — had a 20-year military career and was stationed around the world.Janet placed the new onenju in his urn.

which marked the anniversaries of Shinran Shonins birth and the establishment of the Jodo Shinshu teaching.or with his Sangha here at OCBC.