president of Nanka Kenjinkai Kyogikai (Japanese Prefectural Association of Southern California).

He did NOT want folks to be patched to an impersonal voicemail.You are a leader and an inspiration to me.

the family requests that donations be made to AADAP (www.and their place on this planet.He became the heart of AADAP over the 50 years that he was the director.

Mike gave his life to this agency.yet we treated each other with mutual respect.

I was a lot of trouble to keep as a friend … I couldnt drive (Mike tried to teach me but I wrecked his friends car and a parked car).

Mike was also a brilliant strategic thinker without a traditional strategic plan.he shared his memories of his familys wartime experience: I was three years in the Topaz internment camp in Utah.

Thats about the most damaging thing thats happened.Whereas when I was here in Oakland.

which allows people to go to college while they work here.So to me it was quite a different world.