Warren Nobuaki Iwatake's family has seen more than its share of calamity.
When he was still a child his father was lost at sea off Hawaii. With no breadwinner, his family was forced to move to Japan, where Iwatake was drafted during the war. He lost a brother when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.
But through it all one thing has remained constant.
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