Toshiyuki Nekomoto/Kano, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, attended Nippon University in Japan when WWII began. Having dual citizenship as a Nisei, the Japanese government drafted Tosh into the Army.Military training was tough for the free-spirited island boy, spoiled by his wealthy father and accustomed to preferential status. Spurred by humiliating treatment dispensed by a boot camp sergeant, he vowed revenge and plotted retaliation daily. Near the end of the three month training, his outlook changed. He came to appreciate the lessons learned and decided the best path forward was to become an officer himself. Tosh succeeded and advanced to the rank of Major, although not before he and his family witnessed and suffered the devastating destruction wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
