Shox

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Only in America

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Mom became quite a businesswoman after Papa passed away in October 1948 after a ten-month illness caused by a severe case of diabetes. It took her a while to adjust and come to the realization that at age 41, she was more than just the mother of eight children, ages …

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Parental Responsibilities

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The phrase “parental responsibilities,” as stated, is quite obvious and doesn’t need much of an explanation. It simply states that Mom and Dad are responsible for the well-being of their children, right?

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Haruko (Mom), A Football Fan

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Haruko (Mom), a football fan? Yes, a football fan.

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A Lifetime Christmas Gift

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As I mentioned before, my mother was widowed at age 41 with eight children, ages two to 14. We lived in Chinatown, or the International District as it is now called, in a run-down old hotel named the New Lucky Hotel, on the southwest corner of Maynard and Weller (present …

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The Tokita World War II Diary

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The Seattle Uwajimaya Parking Lot

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So, what about the Uwajimaya parking lot? It seems to me that it’s an ordinary store parking lot. It has a paved parking area with normal parking places marked like thousands of other parking lots. What’s so special about that?

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A Former Paperboy’s Memories of The North American Post

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Delivering the North American Post (NAP, or “Hokubei Hochi”) newspaper around the Chinatown area was an unexpected boon for me and my family during the 1949 to approximately 1957 period. My father passed away in October 1948 leaving my mother, Haruko Tokita, age 41, with eight children, ages two to …

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I am Shokichi (Shox) Tokita, an 89 year old Japanese American Nisei who moved from my regular home into a retirement home in Renton, Washington, in the USA, two months ago. I was born in Seattle, Washington, lived in the Minidoka Concentration camp during World War II, and entered the United States Air Force in 1954. I spent 24 years as a military officer, a Viet Nam veteran with well over 100 combat missions in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia. I retired as a Colonel, and spent my second career running my own financial planning business in the Seattle area and was active in the Japanese community performing a number of functions in various organizations. Later, I started writing articles for the North American Post, a Japanese American newspaper also known as the Hokubei Hochi, in the Seattle area which has become my primary activity at the present time. I also wanted to expand the Tokita family history in the United States of America as well, to make sure our family understood where they came from.

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