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Henri Takahashi

Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer
  Friday, April 19, 2002

Henri Hiroyuki Takahashi, a businessman and philanthropist who emerged from internment after World War II to build a prosperous trading company, died Tuesday at his San Francisco home of a heart ailment. He was 87.

Mr. Takahashi was born in Tokyo and raised in Hawaii, Oakland and Riverside,

where he graduated from high school. After graduating with degrees in sociology and art from Pomona College in 1936, he moved to San Francisco, where he found work as a sports editor for a local Japanese American newspaper.

With the outbreak of World War II, Mr. Takahashi and his new wife, Tomoye Nozawa, were shipped to internment camps in Topaz, Utah.

Following the war, Mr. Takahashi returned to San Francisco and founded the Takahashi Trading Corp. in a small store in Japantown. Selling an array of wares, he built the business into an enterprise with offices in San Francisco, Sausalito and New York.

Mr. Takahashi also founded the Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, which helped fund community and arts programs, including the National Japanese American Historical Society and the National Asian American Telecommunications Association.

Mr. Takahashi is survived by his wife, Tomoye of San Francisco; a daughter, Masako Cohan of Venice; a son, Norman Takahashi of San Francisco; and sisters Helen Akaki of St. Paul, Minn., and Julia Takahashi of Japan.

Memorial services will be held Monday at 6 p.m. at the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California at 1840 Sutter St. in San Francisco.


 
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