{"id":21849,"date":"2026-03-16T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:19:52","slug":"obituary_takeomaekawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/news\/obituary_takeomaekawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Mr. Takeo Maekawa, Former President of JSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">We are deeply saddened to announce that Mr. Takeo Maekawa, former President of JSS, passed away on February 28, 2026.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mr. Maekawa served as President of JSS from 2004 to 2013. Together with his wife, Teruko, he devoted many years to supporting and strengthening the Japanese Canadian community. In 2012, his contributions through JSS were recognized with the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Japanese Foreign Minister\u2019s Commendation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Mr. Maekawa will be remembered for his dedicated leadership and his warm and generous spirit. We extend our heartfelt\u00a0condolences to\u00a0his family\u00a0and remember his many contributions\u00a0to JSS\u00a0with deep gratitude.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21846\" src=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/groupshot_Takeo-Maekawa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/groupshot_Takeo-Maekawa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/groupshot_Takeo-Maekawa.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Mr. Maekawa and Mrs. Maekawa received the Japanese Foreign Mister&#8217;s Commendation in 2012. (Second from the right) Reproduced with permission from the Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obituary: Mr. Takeo Maekawa, former President of JSS passed away on February 28, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":21853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}