Kaz would graduate from Topaz High School in 1943 and enlist in the U.S. Army, Military Intelligence Services Division, where he worked for the CIC (Counter Intelligence Corps), translating and reading Japanese propaganda designed to counter the establishment of democracy in postwar Japan.
Stationed in Japan after the War, he was able to get passports so that his mother and sisters could return to the US. He returned to California after completing his military service and went to UC Berkeley on the GI Bill, becoming a pharmacist. He married Fusako Uyemura, and they raised a family and opened their own drugstore in 1961.
Kaz loved fishing, traveling, and camping. In 1977 he suffered a sudden heart attack while en route to one of his favorite fishing spots, and passed away.