Daisy Joe Fung (top left) on a float in the 1913 Portola ( San Francisco) parade. She was chosen to ride in the parade while visiting her sister, Jennie.
Shinichi Yamashita and his father came from the Hiroshima area of Japan to the U. S. to look at the country before moving to California in the mid-1920s.
Shigeo Uota was presented an award from the Emperor of Japan at a testimonial dinner April 29, 1985. The award, honoring him for the twenty years Uota trained Japanese workers for farm work in Japan, was the "Sixth Class of the Rising Sun" medal.