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West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero recognizes those uprooted from the city during World War II and sent to an American concentration camp in Colorado. A press conference on Feb. 19, 2022 at West Sacramento’s City Hall, where Mayor Guerrero presented … Continue reading →

On March 11, 2011, as Japan was facing a horrendous triple disaster with the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, us five Taguma children, our mother and 10 grandchildren lost our beloved father, husband, and grandfather. Sharing my … Continue reading →

              March 11, 2015 Remembering my father Noboru, four years later… The theme of this year’s Day of Remembrance in San Francisco, held on Feb. 22, 2015, was “Out of the Shadows of Infamy: … Continue reading →

On this one-year anniversary of his passing on Feb. 27, 2013 (his wife Lorrie passing three days later on March 2 — both from cancer), I’m posting my eulogy of Wayne Maeda, who helped to shape the future of a … Continue reading →

A video remembrance of the late Sakaye Taguma. April 20, 1931-July 16, 2013. Music: “Nada Sou Sou” by Natsukawa Rimi Produced by Kenji G. Taguma / Kenjammin’! Productions

TAGUMA, SAKAYE, 82, passed away unexpectedly yet peacefully at her West Sacramento, Calif. home on July 16, 2013. The third of seven children of a pioneer missionary of the Tenrikyo Church in America, she was born on April 20, 1931 … Continue reading →

Found an article I wrote for the 2008 Nichi Bei Times Green Issue, on how my mother reused just about everything. It was translated and reprinted in a Tenrikyo Church newsletter. Both are below, in remembrance of mom… —————————————————————————————————————– (download … Continue reading →

By Stephen Magagnini Sacramento Bee Published Thursday, Mar. 07, 2013 Lorrie Toohey-Maeda’s breast cancer had come back, but the longtime Sacramento City College history teacher put off chemo treatments to be with her husband, Wayne Maeda, who was suffering from … Continue reading →