Hank Gosho
Hank Gosho was born in Seattle, Washington on February 4th, 1921. After he and his two brothers went to Japan to study at an American Southern Methodist school, where he experienced discrimination and prominent cultural differences. In 1941, Gosho returned to the U.S. He recounts associating more with the Japanese Americans who were raised in the U.S. than the other Kibei Nisei in Seattle. Shortly after his return, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Gosho’s father was subsequently arrested by the FBI. After being evicted and imprisoned at Puyallup Temporary WCCA “Assembly Center” in Washington and Minidoka WRA Concentration Camp in Idaho, Gosho volunteered for the U.S. Army. He served with the Military Intelligence Service and Merrill’s Marauders in the jungles of Burma against the Imperial Japanese Army. Gosho eventually went to work for the U.S. Foreign Service.
