Kip Yoshino Tokuda (October 8, 1946 – July 13, 2013) was an American social worker and politician.
His parents George and Tamako (born Inouye) owned the Tokuda Pharmacy, which was located on Jackson Street at the time.
[1] On April 29, 2012, Tokuda was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by Emperor Akihito for promoting positive relations between Japan and the United States.
[5] His niece Maggie Tokuda-Hall wrote a children's book called Love in the Library about how his parents met while imprisoned inside a Japanese-American detention camp during the Second World War.
Tokuda died of a heart attack on July 13, 2013, at age 66 while fishing on Whidbey Island.