{"id":1558,"date":"2011-11-15T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T04:32:44","slug":"vale-sumitaka-john-nagae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=1558","title":{"rendered":"Vale: Sumitaka (John) Nagae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sensei Sumitaka (John) Nagae, Kendo Kyoshi 7 Dan, passed away on 14 November 2011 in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Nagae sensei was a much loved and respected kendoka both in Australia and in Japan.  Since the 1970\u2019s Nagae sensei has been not only a kendo inspiration to \u00a0many, but a much respected and loved leader to the kendo community in Victoria and in particular, in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>He will be missed very much.<\/p>\n<p>Nagae sensei was the Patron and a Life Member of the Australian Kendo Renmei.  He was Presented with the Japan Foreign Ministers Commendation Award in August 2002 for his work in establishing relations between Australia and Japan; the Japanese Imperial 5th Order of Merit of The Rising Sun in April 2003 and received a Commendation awarded by the All Japan Kendo Federation in December 2007 for his contribution to kendo.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by his wife, Reiko, Nagae sensei returned to live in Japan in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Nagae sensei will be laid to rest at private ceremony in Tokyo on Thursday, November 17, 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1561\" style=\"border-image: initial; border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"nagaesenseidojo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nagaesenseidojo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nagaesenseidojo.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nagaesenseidojo-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/nagaesenseidojo-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensei Sumitaka (John) Nagae, Kendo Kyoshi 7 Dan, passed away on 14 November 2011 in Tokyo. Nagae sensei was a much loved and respected kendoka both in Australia and in &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}