Frank and Miyoko

I was a junior at Berkeley High School in 1941. I was dating a girl I knew in school named Miyoko Akimoto. We went to the movies and spent time together; I guess you could say she was my girlfriend.  

Both of our families were sent to Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, but in the first month, the Akimotos left as part of a diplomatic exchange. The US government needed people to trade for American diplomats, and Miyoko’s father worked for Pacific Trading, a Japanese company.

When we parted, she promised me, “We are going to meet again!”