Yoshihisa 'Yoshi' Kanda

YOSHIHISA "YOSHI" KANDA

Kawasaki City, Japan

Yoshihisa "Yoshi" Kanda, 72, of Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, (near Tokyo), Japan, passed away peacefully on Jan. 10, 2020, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born Nov. 19, 1947, in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture (on the southern island of Kyushu), the son of Nobuya and Shizuko Kanda, he was the next-to-the-youngest of seven children.

Yoshi attended school in Kagoshima, Japan, until the summer of 1964, when he was selected as an American Field Service exchange student. He lived with the Richard and Esther Bordwell family in Washington, Iowa, for the 1964-65 school year, graduating with the Class of 1965. He graduated in 1970 from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, as an English major and spent his entire career with J.P. Morgan/Euroclear Bank in Tokyo, New York and Belgium, retiring in 2007 as director and chief representative.

Yoshi married Yoshiko Fukushima in Tokyo on April 20, 1975. They were parents to two children and their spouses, daughter Junko and son-in-law Benjamin Gemmill of Jersey City N.J.; son, Kazuhisa and

daughter-in-law Mayuko Kanda of Tokyo, Japan. They had one granddaughter, Catherine "Catie" Fuji Gemmill. Yoshi also is survived by his half sister, Mineko; half brother, Noriyoshi; and sisters, Keiko and Miwako.

Yoshi loved golf, skiing, the strategy board game Go and a good steak. He and Yoshiko enjoyed daily video chats with granddaughter Catie. Yoshi spoke three languages and continued to study French after he retired.

Also surviving are Yoshi's American mother, Esther Bordwell; siblings, Richard (Rick) Bordwell and Millie Youngquist of Washington, Iowa; John Bordwell of Minneapolis, Minn.; William (Bill) Bordwell of Geneseo, Ill.; Lynda Bordwell of Cedar Rapids; and special friends, Jim Mallory and members of the WHS Class of 1965.

A memorial fund with the Washington School District Foundation has been established in Yoshi's name. Donations may be left at the Federation Bank or Bordwell Law Office in Washington.