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Aigi Shigehiro was the second son of Asano (nee Morikawa) and Otoichi Shigehiro, and he was born in White Rock, BC. When he was 5, the sawmill his father was working at closed down, and the family moved to Langley, to a farm on Livingstone Road (232nd Street). Here the Sakamoto family was their neighbours. Aigi attended Murrayville School, and later Otter School from grades 5-8. In December 1941, Aigi (Grade 10) and his older brother Kyoto (Grade 12) were attending Langley High School when there was an announcement that all Japanese Canadians would be evacuated from the West Coast.The family, then consisting of mom and dad and ten children, including Sumi, who was born the day before the attack on Pearl Harbour, were picked up in May 1942, taken to a train, and moved to a place called Raymond, Alberta to labour on a sugar beet farm. Aigi was 17 years old.

Otoichi Shigehiro was born on April 1, 1893. He married Asano Morikawa (1903-1996) and they had ten children, including Kyoto, Aigi, Taror (sp?), Jimmie, Cheko, Ted, and Elsie Yuriko. They lived in Port Hammond, Britannia Beach, Port Moody, and White Rock before moving to Langley in 1931. The family consisted of ten children including Sumi, born the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor, when in May 1942 the family was interned and they were moved to Raymond, Alberta. They lived there until May 1948, when they moved to Barnwell, Alberta; in 1957 they moved to Taber, Alberta, and in 1961 they moved to Lethbridge. Otoichi Shigehiro passed away on February 28, 1970.