{"id":11396,"date":"2020-02-12T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/?page_id=11396"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:45:34","slug":"national-merit-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/funds-and-awards\/national-merit-award\/","title":{"rendered":"National Merit Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAJC member organizations and supporting organizations may nominate individuals who have shown leadership and outstanding contributions in the service of their local community, for recognition by the NAJC.<\/p>\n

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NAJC National Merit Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mitchell Kawasaki <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitchell is a former Olympian and trainer of many champions as well as a coach of national teams both for judo and wrestling.\u00a0 He has been president of the Canadian Japanese Cultural Centre both in the past and currently.\u00a0 He has served on the board of directors numerous\u00a0times and has lead the community during the unprecedented COVID 19 crisis ensuring that the community stayed safe during this time.\u00a0 It was a difficult time with no money coming in and bills to pay but the CJCC managed to survive.\u00a0 He has also been involved in human rights issues and initialed the involvement of CJCC’s response to many disaster relief efforts and other crises in the past\u00a0receiving acknowledgement from the Canadian Red Cross for CJCC’s responses.<\/p>\n

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Kawasaki Rendokan Judo<\/strong><\/p>\n

In recognition of the 65th<\/sup> anniversary of the Hamilton Kodokan and Kawasaki Rendokan Judo Club and the dedication to the athletes involved and to the Japanese Canadian community.<\/p>\n

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NAJC National Merit Award Recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Awarded by local associations for work at local level<\/strong>\u00a0 (partial listing)<\/p>\n

Jim Hiroshi Tomimoto<\/p>\n

Kay Keiko Kuwahara<\/p>\n

Kimoto Mary<\/p>\n

Anne Nakamura<\/p>\n

Marianne Natsuhara<\/p>\n

Roy Natsuhara<\/p>\n

Jim Nishiyama<\/p>\n

Kay Robson<\/p>\n

John Shimizu<\/p>\n

Ed Yamamoto<\/p>\n

Chikara Koyanagi<\/p>\n

Fumi Fujiwara<\/p>\n

Kathryn Honda<\/p>\n

Nobu Ellis, Winnipeg<\/p>\n

Dan Namba, Winnipeg<\/p>\n

Sakaye \u201cSockeye\u201d Hashimoto<\/p>\n

Gayle Swanson<\/p>\n

Kiyoko \u2018Kay\u2019 Takahara<\/p>\n

Tadashi \u2018Tad\u2019 Mori<\/p>\n

Richard Oikawa<\/p>\n

Joe Minten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAJC member organizations and supporting organizations may nominate individuals who have shown leadership and outstanding contributions in the service of their local community, for recognition by the NAJC. NAJC National Merit Award 2023 Mitchell Kawasaki Mitchell is a former Olympian and trainer of many champions as well as a coach of national teams both for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10696,"featured_media":0,"parent":8242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15011,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11396\/revisions\/15011"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/najc.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}