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RAYMOND YOSHIHIRO AKA / 1915-2006 - Linguist boosted relations between U.S. and Japan
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Raymond Yoshihiro Aka, who was honored by the Japanese emperor for his work strengthening U.S.-Japanese relations, will be buried Friday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl.
Aka was 90 when he died Jan. 5 in Walnut Creek, Calif. The son of Japanese immigrants, Aka was born in Wailuku in 1915 but spent much of his childhood in Okinawa. He graduated from McKinley High School in 1939.
In September 1941, a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harb...
