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Couple Celebrates 75th Anniversary
Yoshio and Nobuko Kozono were married in Kagoshima on Feb. 4, 1946. Besides celebrating 75 years together, Yoshio also marked his 100th birthday on March 10. (Toyo Miyatake Studio)
On Feb. 4, 2021, Yoshio and Nobuko Kozono celebrated their 75
th wedding anniversary. Yoshio, who turned 100 years old on March 10, 2021 married Nobuko Maeda on Feb. 4, 1946 in Kagoshima, Japan. They welcomed their first child, Hiroshi, in 1948.
Yoshio then came to America in 1955 under President Eisenhower’s Refugee Relief Act, along with many Japanese immigrant farm workers, and worked on the Nishida Camp Orchard near Fresno for three years.
In 1958, he moved to Los Angeles and was employed at American Fish Company, where he worked for the next 33 years. In February 1960, Nobuko and Hiroshi joined him in Los Angeles.
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ESGVJCC to Present Virtual Screening of ‘Six Weddings and a Dress’
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A wedding dress, first worn by Chiyomi Ogawa at Manzanar, is a symbol of the resilience love through the generations.
WEST COVINA The East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center will present a virtual film screening of “Six Weddings and a Dress” via Zoom on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m.
This is an amazing love story about a wedding dress made for bride Chiyomi Ogawa while she was held captive at Manzanar during World War II. After the war, the dress was passed along to grace five Japanese American brides who had relocated to Pasadena to rebuild their lives.