The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation held a 100th birthday celebration on Oct. 4 for Takashi “Tak” Hoshizaki, the last surviving Heart Mountain draft resister, Korean War veteran, civil rights leader and HMWF board member.

He was born Oct. 3, 1925, in Los Angeles, the eldest of six children of Japanese immigrant parents, Keijiro and Name Hoshizaki. His father initially worked in the family import business before opening the Fujiya grocery store in East Hollywood, a neighborhood known as J-Flats. Hoshizaki grew up immersed in his community, participating in Boy Scouts, helping at the family store, and enjoying life with neighborhood friends.

During World War II, the family was forcibly relocated first to the Pomona Assembly Center and then to Heart Mountain in Wyoming, where Hoshizaki co

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