Daniel Inouye - Early Life

Early Life

Inouye was born on September 7, 1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Kame (née Imanaga) and Hyotaro Inouye. He is a Nisei Japanese-American, as the son of a Japanese immigrant father and a mother whose parents had also immigrated from Japan. He grew up in the Bingham Tract, a Chinese-American enclave within the predominantly Japanese-American community of Mōʻiliʻili in Honolulu. He graduated from Honolulu's President William McKinley High School.

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