Hoshimiya Family

Biography

Tosuke Hoshimiya was born in 1886; a native of Miyagi Prefecture, he graduated from Thoku Gakuin and arrived in the United States in 1906; served as principal for various Japanese language schools in the Los Angeles area until December 1941; incarcerated in internment camps at Fort Missoula, Montana, and Lordsburg, New Mexico, until he later joined his family at the Granada Relocation Center in Amache, Colorado; he served as a Japanese language instructor for the Military language program, University of Michigan, 1945-46; he married Sadayo Hoshimiya (née Nagai) in 1915; she was also a native of Miyagi Prefecture; she attended Utsunomiya Women's School in Japan and arrived in the United States in 1914; she was a Japanese language school teacher, and she and Tosuke had three children.