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Yuri Kochiyama
was a Japanese American human rights activist.
==Early life==
Mary Yuriko Nakahara was born on May 19, 1921 in San Pedro, California to Japanese immigrants Seiichi Nakahara, a fishmerchant entrepreneur, and Tsuyako Nakahara, a college-educated homemaker and piano teacher. She had a twin brother, Peter, and an older brother, Art. Her family was relatively affluent and she grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood. In her youth she attended church and taught Sunday school. Kochiyama attended San Pedro High School, where she served as the first female student body officer, wrote for the school newspaper, and played on the tennis team. She graduated from high school in 1939. She attended Compton Junior College, where she studied English, journalism, and art. Kochiyama graduated from Compton in 1941. Yuri Kochiyama was a school teacher at the Presbyterian church close to where she resided.
Her life changed on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese Empire bombed Pearl Harbor. She was unaware of this event while she was teaching at church. Soon after the bombings, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, barged through looking for her father. Within a matter of minutes, the three men took her father away as he was considered a "suspect" who could threaten national security. The event happened so quickly she was unable to question their actions. Her father was sick to begin with and he was just released from the hospital when the FBI arrested him. While her father was in federal prison he was denied medical care, and by the time he was released on January 20, 1942, he had become too sick to speak. Her father died the day after his release.〔
Soon after the death of her father, the United States government ordered Yuri, her mother and brother to leave their home in San Pedro. They were "evacuated" to a converted horse stable at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for several months and then moved again to the War Relocation Authority concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas, where they lived for the next three years. While interned, she met her future husband, Bill Kochiyama, a Nisei soldier fighting for the United States. The couple was married in 1946.〔 They then moved to New York in 1948 and lived in public housing for the next twelve years. Most of their neighbors were African American.
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