After serving in the Korean War, many Japanese Canadians stayed in the military. Yeiji Inouye served 25 years in the Royal Canadian Navy, Robert Cato (Kato), 29 years.  Tak Irizawa, Karl Konishi, Ray Nakamoto and Don Yamane served in the Canadian Army for 25 years. Yutaka Kobayashi served for 21 years. 

Ryoichi Kobayashi and his family returned to Canada in 1957. Ryoichi, accompanied by Yutaka, applied for Canadian citizenship but was turned down by the presiding judge.  When Yutaka explained that his father was a Canadian First World War veteran and pointed to the insignia on his father’s lapel, the judge changed his mind (Yesaki, 2007; Bramham, 2014).