tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74976215812937738952024-02-19T02:22:49.537-08:00Yoshida & KanemitsuUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497621581293773895.post-29120239719751947072015-12-01T15:06:00.000-08:002015-12-18T12:01:58.125-08:00Kenji Imoto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ha! More Imotos... this time, Kenji.</span><br />
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<tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Birth: </span></td><td align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aug. 23, 1938</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lindsay</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tulare County</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">California, USA</span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Death: </span></td><td align="left" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oct. 31, 2009</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rancho Mirage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riverside County</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">California, USA</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kenji
Imoto 08/23/1938 ~ 10/31/2009 VISTA -- After a short battle with
pancreatic cancer, Kenji passed away at his home in Rancho Mirage,
California on Saturday, October 31, 2009. He was the youngest of nine
children born to Uichi and Tsuru Higashi Imoto on August 23, 1938 in
Lindsay, California. During World War II in 1942, his family was placed
in a Japanese Internment Camp. Upon their release in 1946 the family
settled in Vista, California. Kenji spent his youth working the family
farms and graduated from Vista High School. Upon retiring in May 2005
from Janney & Janney Attorney Services, he and Nancy relocated from
Costa Mesa, California to the desert in Rancho Mirage. His favorite
pastimes were golfing, hunting and especially cooking for family and
friends. Kenji was loved by all. He will be truly missed by all of his
friends and family. He is survived by his wife of 50 years and soul
mate, Nancy; his sons, Kevin and Dale; daughter, Jody, and son-in-law,
Daniel Gonzalez; and five grandchildren, Brittany, Trevor and Tristen
Gonzalez, Joshua Branch and Krista Imoto. His surviving siblings include
Yoshio (Kay) Imoto, Yoshiko (Dean) Mizushima, Charlie (Jane) Imoto,
Yayoi (Jim) Messersmith. Other surviving family members are
brothers-in-law, John Kawano, Alan "Spike"(Beth) Harvey; sisters-in-law,
Kinu Imoto, Iris Imoto and Donna (Karl "Barney") Fields; along with
numerous nephews and nieces. A memorial service and celebration of his
life will be held on Thursday, November 12, at 10 am at Eternal Hills
Memorial Park, 1999 S. El Camino Real, Oceanside, California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Source North County Times November 5, 2009 </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look what I found!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;"> On Wednesday, June 3, [2009] family, friends, students and peers of Sam Imoto (<u>Poston 226-4-CD</u>)
gathered to say thank you to the Judo Sensei for his 51 years of
teaching the Japanese martial art to young students across the county.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto, 82, is bowing out of his position as the lead instructor of the
judo club at the Visalia YMCA after helping to start it in 1965.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto is not eager to give up teaching although he admits when the
Lindsay Kiwanis Club approached him in 1958 about starting up a club, it
seemed a bit ludicrous.</span></span></b></div>
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Once he started teaching, he could not be stopped and at one time he
was running Judo clubs in three different cities. Perhaps Imoto's
dedication to the sport stems from his personal ties to it.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;"> "I mean it when I say it, judo saved my life," Imoto said.</span></span></b></div>
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Sam Imoto was born and raised along with his nine siblings in the
hamlet of Tonyville near Lindsay. The Imotos were farmers by trade and
the children all attended Lindsay schools. But upon American involvement
in World War II, the Imotos were shipped off to <u>[Poston camp 2] Arizona</u> internment camps with many other local Japanese-American families from the Central Valley and the rest of the State.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">It was there that Sam Imoto began his study of the Japanese martial art of judo.</span></span></b></div>
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"Before we went to the camp, Lindsay had a Kendo Club and Samurai
training," Imoto said. Sam Imoto's father enrolled him, three brothers
and two sisters in the class. "They let us teach judo in the camp but we
couldn't do kendo."</span></span></b></div>
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So, began Imoto's judo training. In the evenings, after the schoolwork
was done the camp children took judo classes from Kenzo Uyeno.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;"> While the younger Imoto children lived in <u>Arizona [Poston 226-4-CD</u>]
with their parents, three of the brothers served in the US military.
When one of the Imoto sons was discharged for a murmuring heart in 1945,
he brought the family back to Tonyville from the camp.</span></span></b></div>
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By then Sam Imoto had finished his high school studies, he had spent
four years away from home. When they returned, there was no warm
welcome.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">"No Japs Wanted. Japs Get Out."</span></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;"> Imoto remembers the signs in the store windows, and the bumper stickers on all the passing cars.</span></span></b></div>
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"There was only one grocery store that would sell groceries to my
father," Imoto said."It was all over Every car had a bumper sticker. No
Japs. Our home was trashed. There was another family living there."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;"> As the Imoto family settled back in to their Tonyville home, Sam Imoto turned 18 and was drafted into the U.S. Army.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Judo in action</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></span></b></div>
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From the moment Sam Imoto reported for duty, it seemed he was defending
himself each time he met someone new or changed locations.</span></span></b></div>
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Among his fellow recruits reporting for basic training in Virginia,
Imoto sat on his duffle bag when another recruit pulled a knife on him
and told another white recruit that they should cut him up.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto, remaining calm, diffused the situation with his words. But his
words didn't always work in fighting the racist attitude in his post-war
companies.</span></span></b></div>
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"Judo saved my life," Imoto said. "Everybody took a turn at me. Every
technique in judo is self defense. No one knew what judo was. They
didn't know what hit them."</span></span></b></div>
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Today in his judo classes, Imoto teaches his student to always walk
away from fights. Imoto believes this practice but in his service in the
Army, he could not walk away everytime.</span></span></b></div>
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"Judo is self defense, but we tell the kids to walk away. Sometimes you
can't walk away, you have to turn around and fight. In the service, I
got tired of walking away," Imoto said.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto recalls an incident when a 6'2" soldier challenged him. When the
soldier attacked him, Imoto used a judo throw and to put him on the
ground. Each time the soldier stood up to fight him again, he used the
judo throw again until the soldier gave up.</span></span></b></div>
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"He said 'No more Imoto.' Then he made a speech in the Barracks. "You
mess with Imoto, you have to come through me.' He became my friend,"
Imoto said of the incident.</span></span></b></div>
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Every time he transferred the bullying and attacks would start again
until he used his martial arts to make a point. He spent two and a half
years in Germany surviving the racism.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">From Student to Sensei</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"></span></span></b></div>
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After three years away from home, Sam Imoto was discharged from the
Army and he returned to Tonyville to work on the family farm.</span></span></b></div>
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In 1958, he was sitting on a tractor in the fields when a member of the
Lindsay Kiwanis club approached Imoto. The Kiwanis planned to start a
judo club and wanted Imoto to teach. After some persuasion by the club
member, Imoto agreed to it only if an instructor from Fresno was brought
down to help get things started. It was then, while learning to teach,
that Imoto earned his blackbelt from Kano Sensei, student of professor
Yamauchi.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto grew in his judo training as he raised a family with his wife
Janis in the house that they have shared since their marriage in 1953.
He taught his own children (Vicki, Tobi, Gordon and Sandee) and
grandchildren over the years. And as students changed, so did the clubs.
From the Lindsay club, Imoto helped to open clubs in Visalia, Dinuba
and Corcoran. The Visalia YMCA club began in 1965 and Imoto has been the
sensei there since. The program currently holds practices twice a week
and competes in weekend tournaments once a month.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto is now a seventh degree blackbelt and prides himself on the
accomplishments of his students. His star pupil Michael Tacata, won the
junior and senior national championships in high school and continued to
compete at Stanford where he was the Collegiate National Champion. He
now teaches Judo part time at the University of Tennessee.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Imoto is also proud of those students who have gone on to teach the sport to local youth.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Robert Ford, Greg Arnold, Janet Hass and Isabelle Negrete and Roger Wong are all assistants at the Visalia Judo Club.</span></span></b></div>
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Imoto himself only attempted to compete in Judo when he first began
teaching. "When I first started, I tested myself," Imoto said."ìBut I
was too old. I was competing against kids 17 or 18 years old when I was
30-something."</span></span></b></div>
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Now Imoto is semi-retiring from teaching and handing over the program
into the capable hands of Tom Jay a former student and a third degree
blackbelt.</span></span></b></div>
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His legacy will continue at the Visalia Judo Club with his former
students running the program. For now, Imoto will have more time to
relax and spend time with three children, seven grandkids and four
great-grandkids.</span></span></b></div>
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"In Kendo and Judo training, I learned to be very confident," Imoto
said. "I told myself I'd take care of myself and obey my instructors. I
knew to never show off what I learned and knew not to use it if I don't
need to use it. I try to instill the same to my students."</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Source: http://www.thesungazette.com/articles/2009/06/10/news/sports/sports02.txt</span></i></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497621581293773895.post-70713649059755028022015-12-01T09:15:00.000-08:002015-12-01T14:34:10.040-08:00Two More Pics of Brown People<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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These two pics are from the same batch as the 11/29 post, but somehow got lost in the fray.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the things I forgot to mention is how I remarked to Auntie Kathy about how brown some of the Yoshidas were, like Warren, above. Auntie matter-of-factly said "Well, when you're in 115 degree heat...".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember Grandpa, lean and brown as the earth, maybe the ultimate signifier of the Yoshidas' roots in Lindsay.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7497621581293773895.post-39417920476536456342015-11-29T13:54:00.001-08:002015-11-29T23:39:41.677-08:00Salt of the Earth: Bert Tadashi Yoshida (New Pics)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are the latest family pics. Amy said these came via Grandpa and eventually made their way to Uncle Bert.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The occasion was Uncle Bert's service, and the family meal was in Torrance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been thinking of what to say about Uncle, and have to be honest that I'm not ready yet. But I think there are a few things coming into focus. For now, I'll just say that when I think of Uncle, I always remember him smiling. WWII and a good ole' blue collar body and fender LA boy, the kind that used to go to Rams and Lakers games once upon a time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A while back I was talking to an old college buddy who'd recently come back from services for a family friend. This friend was also WWII, but it was the description he gave of this man that resonated; he said their friend embodied what made America great: <i>sacrifice, integrity and hard work. </i>That's Uncle Bert and the Yoshidas. Pure salt of the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When there was doubt, these were id'd by Auntie Kathy, so if anyone has more info, let me know. Auntie thought the one above is Auntie Nellie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who's this? In the comments below, Kim says it's Warren, but I could have sworn Warren said it's not him.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorites: Ross, Ma (Beti), Kathy, Frances. What's amusing to me is Ma, barefoot like a country girl.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of all the photos, I wish I had pristine copies of these two. Evidently, Auntie Frances is part French as she took the guillotine to herself. First one: Frances's body, Ma (Beti), Kathy, and Ross. Second: Ross, Kathy, Ma, Frances.</span></div>
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