Toshiko Hattori oral history interview, part 1 of 4, January 25, 2003

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Toshiko Hattori describes her childhood growing up in foster homes in New York City. She attended nursing school after high school, and joined the United States Army to work as a nurse. During World War II, she was sent overseas to Korea, but was later sent to Tokyo, Japan to undergo appendix surgery. There, she met her husband, who was a Military Intelligence Officer, and they later returned to the states. While pregnant with her second daughter, Toshiko followed her husband back to Japan, where she stayed with relatives in Tokyo.

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00:28:22

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2003OH0321_01_Hattori

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Citation

Hattori, Toshiko: narrator, Yoneshige, David: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Toshiko Hattori oral history interview, part 1 of 4, January 25, 2003,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed October 5, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/811.