alertness in the line of duty. Pfc Tamotsu Fukuoka received a commendation from the area General for the arrest of a wanted member of the Nazi Party Art Collectors Association, while T/ 4 Tadashi Tojo, Pfc Robert Yutaka, Pfc Shunro Nomura and Pfc Torao Nitta were awarded Soldiers Medals for the rescue of a
was buried in the Lexington section of the Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park in Seattle. The pallbearers were from neighboring families of the Puyallup valley: Art Yamada, George Yamamoto, George Iwakiri, Hiroshi Sakahara, Frank Yaguchi, Satoshi Dogen, Minoru Uchida, and Toru Kuramoto. His widow and son lived with her family on Route 5,
from the village of Kusatsu, Saeki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Kikuhachi died of tuberculosis on October 5, 1923. At the time, he was the proprietor of an art store. Jim, as James was known, graduated from Galileo High School in San Francisco. He was a member of the San Francisco Buddhist Church and the
