"It has been estimated that in all the international world of bonsai, John Y. Naka is easily considered among the top five contemporary greatest masters, the grand masters of the art. The following is a partial and beginning but representative run-through of this great teacher’s life."
David W. Fukumoto, Tribute to John Yoshio Naka (Fuku-Bonsai Cultural Center & Hawai'i State Bonsai Repository)
"This premier issue is devoted to John Yoshio Naka. NABF has received tributes and photographs from bonsai lovers across North America and around the world attesting to the towering influence John has had not only on the art of bonsai but on us as human beings."
"A Tribute to John Yoshio Naka" The Art of Bonsai Project Feature Gallery. The Art of Bonsai Project is an online journal and community for the examination and exploration of the bonsai art form.