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Yuri Kochiyama was born Mary Yuriko Nakahara in San Pedro, California, on May 19, 1921, to a Japanese American family. Her parents, Seiichi and Tsuyako Nakahara, were from north central Japan. Her father moved to the United States in 1907 and worked as a fisherman before opening a fish market in San Pedro. He returned to Japan in 1917 and married Tsuyako Sawaguchi. The couple returned to San Pedro in 1918. Later that year Kochiyama’s brother Arthur Masao was born. In May 1921, Kochiyama and her twin brother, Peter Minoru, were born. |
