Celebration of Life
Janurary 2025
It is always sad and overwhelming when we lose a family member. In 2024, we lost two of our Nanka Ehime Kenjinkai Board Members: Mrs. May Kikuchi in November and Donna Kikuchi Hernandez in October.
I want to say “THANK YOU VERY MUCH” for all their contributions and dedication while they served on the Ehime Kenjinkai Board. They were truly our rock in our organization. Doumo otsukaresamadeshita.
The entire Nanka Ehime Kenjinkai and I extend our deepest sympathy to their dearest families and relatives.
Rest in peace in their new happy place where they are reunited with their family members once again. I know they are celebrating now.
Sincerely,
Kihei Otani
President
Nanka Ehime Kenjinkai
The late George Sasaki (past Ehime Kenjinkai president) and the late Hiroshi Uyeda went to high school together in Yawatahama. They became life-long friends in Los Angeles. Call it Fate, written by Keiko Moriyama, is a story about how their adult children, plus a close cousin, met for the first time through a series of events and reconnected their lives into one. In Japanese, there’s a term "御縁" (ごえん or goen) that can be translated to mean "divine connection" or "auspicious encounter." It's often used to describe a fateful or fortunate meeting between people and is commonly associated with the idea that certain encounters are guided by fate or destiny. Read her essay here.
Here’s the direct link to the essay