Probate/Estate Record of Kakuzo Seki

Probate/Estate Record of Kakuzo Seki

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Title Proper F0 GR1422 REEL B09506 FOLIO 8274
Date(s) of material from this resource digitized 1942
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From this file, LOI has digitized one textual record or image.
Scope and content
This is the probate record for the estate of Kakuzo Seki. This document records the sale of Seki’s property in Vancouver to Roy Matamaru Iwata and that the payment for the property will be made to the Custodian of Enemy Property. It also lists three sons as beneficiaries but that “all moneys payable to the aforesaid beneficiaries are payable to the under Secretary of State of Canada in his capacity as Custodian of Enemy Property.”
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Immediate source of acquisition
The digital copies of the records were acquired by the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective between 2014 and 2018.
This record was digitized in full.

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Probate/Estate Record of Kakuzo Seki
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