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Sock Seki, Barney Kong and Rattan Singh Ghuman honoured with street names at Coquitlam’s Fraser Mills

VAntage Point Don Seki: Japanese American War Hero Don Seki served as a member of the 442nd Regiment, a unit of Japanese American soldiers, during World War II. Born in December 1922, Noboru “Don” Seki grew up in the Manoa Valley in Honolulu, where his parents worked as farmers on a sugar plantation. He was the youngest son and grew up barefoot; his family was at the bottom of the plantation economy. At the time, two of every five Hawaiians were Japanese American, and discrimination against Japanese American citizens was not as prevalent as it was on the mainland. When Seki was 17, his pa...

Those We Lost in 2020 Posted On 2020 has been a year of extraordinary loss and suffering. As The Rafu presents its annual listing of passings in the community, we offer our condolences to all those who have lost loved ones in this most difficult of years.   Following, in alphabetical order, are some of the notable individuals who passed away during the past year. Sumako Azuma II Sumako Azuma II (Janice Aiso Edesa), 61, on July 24. The North American representative to Azuma Ryū in Japan, she taught Japanese classical dance for 45 years, training 14 students to earn the natori degree and ...