Though sickly as a child, Yoshiko graduated from high school in two and a half years and enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, at age 16. Courtesy of the Yoshiko Uchida photograph collection, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library. Yoshiko (left) and Keiko Uchida before the war. The girls took piano lessons and the family went to concerts and museums, while also taking memorable vacations to the East Coast and to Japan. The family lived in a rented home in an area of Berkeley that had been previously restricted to whites. By the time Yoshiko and her older sister Keiko (1918–2008) were born, her parents were well established, with Dwight working for the San Francisco branch of Mitsui and Company, and the girls enjoyed a relatively privileged upbringing. Both were Christian and graduates of Doshisha University. Yoshiko Uchida was born on November 24, 1921, to Issei parents Dwight Takashi Uchida (1884–1971) and Iku Umegaki Uchida (1893–1966).
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