Hoshimiya family.

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Tosuke Hoshimiya was born in 1886; a native of Miyagi prefecture, he graduated from Tôhoku Gakuin and arrived in the US in 1906; served as principal for various Japanese language schools in the Los Angeles area until Dec. 1941; incarcerated in internment camps at Fort Missoula, MT, and Lordsburg, NM, until he later joined his family at the Granada Relocation Center in Amache, CO; he served as a Japanese language instructor for the Military language program, Univ. 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 US in 1914; she was a Japanese language school teacher, and she and Tosuke had three children.

From the description of Papers, 1910-1968. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 39844913

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Japanese American families
Japanese Americans
Language teachers
Schools, Japanese
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Active 1910

Active 1968

English,

Japanese

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