Portrait of Shigeko Iwaihara Koga

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ddr-ajah-6-168 (1931-Iwaihara-Shigeko-graduation)

Alameda Japanese American History Project: Family and Community Collection

Caption below photo: Shigeko Iwaihara graduates from Alameda High School, circa 1931. She would have been about 20. she was sent to japan with her two siblings to live with their grandparents in 1919 for a Japanese education. Perhaps this put her behind in school. She would later marry Matao Koga in 1949.

c. 1931

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