For the Yasuda Family of Alaska
The relationship between Japan and Alaska dates back to 1893 when Frank Yasuda, a cabin boy on the Coast Guard cutter Bear, went to Barrow to obtain food after his ship became trapped in ice. He delivered the supplies to the Bear but decided to settle in Barrow. Times were hard in Barrow so Mr. Yasuda led groups of Natives to the banks of the Yukon River where he helped establish the settlement of Beaver. Mr. Yasuda devoted most of his life to the people of Beaver until his death in 1958. |
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