101, of Wahiawa, passed away on December 23, 2022. She was born on January 9, 1921, in Nagaoka, Japan to Misao and Hajime Yasuda Sato (older sister Sumi Sato). While employed as a writer at a Japanese woman's magazine in Tokyo, she met Kiyoto (Lefty) Nakagawa who was working there after serving in the US Army's Military Intelligence Service (MIS). In 1947, they were married, and in 1949, they moved with their daughter Lillian to live with his family in Wahiawa where daughter Ann was born. For nearly 40 years, she taught Japanese to children at Wahiawa Hongwanji Gakuen and thereafter to adults at Leilehua High School Adult Education night school. In the 1950's, she worked part time as a radio announcer for a Japanese language program that was broadcast by a radio station in Waipahu. She continued her writing and had many articles published in Pacific Press and other publications, many about her worldwide travels. She loved to travel, made multiple visits to England, France, Italy and Japan and traveled to over 23 countries, including Egypt, Russia and Turkey. She pursued her hobby of writing tanka poems as a member of Odamaki group in Honolulu. In 2009, she received the "top honor" award given to only 10 people for the tanka she submitted in a competition held in Japan called the Meiji Kinen Sougou Tanka Tournament held semiannually in memory of the Meiji Emperor at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. She is survived by her daughters, Lillian Nakagawa Miyasaki and Ann Nakagawa Murata (Chester), grandson Ryan Migita, great-grandson James Migita, step-grandson Wayde Murata and his family, and sister-in-law, nieces, nephews and their children. The family thanks Rosalina for her loving care for 4 years and Joan, April and Leofel for their loving care and comfort during her last days. Private services.
101, of Wahiawa, passed away on December 23, 2022. She was born on January 9, 1921, in Nagaoka, Japan to Misao and Hajime Yasuda Sato (older sister Sumi Sato). While employed as a writer at a Japanese woman's magazine in Tokyo, she met Kiyoto (Lefty) Nakagawa who was working there after serving in the US Army's Military Intelligence Service (MIS). In 1947, they were married, and in 1949, they moved with their daughter Lillian to live with his family in Wahiawa where daughter Ann was born. For nearly 40 years, she taught Japanese to children at Wahiawa Hongwanji Gakuen and thereafter to adults at Leilehua High School Adult Education night school. In the 1950's, she worked part time as a radio announcer for a Japanese language program that was broadcast by a radio station in Waipahu. She continued her writing and had many articles published in Pacific Press and other publications, many about her worldwide travels. She loved to travel, made multiple visits to England, France, Italy and Japan and traveled to over 23 countries, including Egypt, Russia and Turkey. She pursued her hobby of writing tanka poems as a member of Odamaki group in Honolulu. In 2009, she received the "top honor" award given to only 10 people for the tanka she submitted in a competition held in Japan called the Meiji Kinen Sougou Tanka Tournament held semiannually in memory of the Meiji Emperor at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. She is survived by her daughters, Lillian Nakagawa Miyasaki and Ann Nakagawa Murata (Chester), grandson Ryan Migita, great-grandson James Migita, step-grandson Wayde Murata and his family, and sister-in-law, nieces, nephews and their children. The family thanks Rosalina for her loving care for 4 years and Joan, April and Leofel for their loving care and comfort during her last days. Private services.
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