{"id":473109,"date":"2025-12-26T15:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:58:12","slug":"tsuruko-iwohara-rafu-shimpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/473109\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsuruko Iwohara &#8211; Rafu Shimpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"541\" height=\"550\" data-attachment-id=\"317523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rafu.com\/2025\/12\/tsuruko-iwohara-2\/iwohara-tsuruko-obit20251226\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Iwohara-Tsuruko-obit20251226.jpg?fit=600%2C610&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,610\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iwohara-Tsuruko-obit20251226\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Iwohara-Tsuruko-obit20251226.jpg?fit=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rafu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Iwohara-Tsuruko-obit20251226.jpg?fit=541%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Iwohara-Tsuruko-obit20251226.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-317523\" style=\"width:727px;height:auto\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">A funeral service for the past L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Buddhist Women\u2019s Association (BWA) president, Tsuruko Iwohara, 95-year-old, Hiroshima, Japan-born Issei, who passed away on October 16, 2025 in Montebello, Calif., was held under the auspices of L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple BWA on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">On behalf of the Iwohara family, L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple BWA would like to express our appreciation for your attendance at the funeral service.<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple BWA<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">815 E. 1st\u00a0St., Los Angeles, CA 90012<\/p>\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">(213) 680-9130<\/p>\n<p>\n\tArticles for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral service for the past L.A. Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Buddhist Women\u2019s Association (BWA) president, Tsuruko Iwohara,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":473110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1444,1582,276,2961,224,5337,22299],"class_list":{"0":"post-473109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-1444","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-october"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115786699567412167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}