Thomas Hideo (Tom) Imai
comments that Japanese Americans were “as typically American as you or I.” A few months after his discharge, on September 12, 1945, in Spokane, Tom Imai married Shizu Akai, a native of Portland, Oregon. She was the daughter of Kinnosuke and Katsu (Yoshihara) Akai, who had immigrated from Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The newlyweds decided to