Yoshiko Miwa is a validated American supercentenarian known as the oldest living survivor of the WWII Japanese internment camps.

Yoshiko Miwa was born on 28 February 1914 in Guadalupe, California, USA.

During the late 1920s, Miwa served as a Dharma School teacher at the Guadalupe Buddhist Church. In 1928, she met Henry Miwa, her future husband, when he visited the church. She pursued higher education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a degree in business administration in 1936.

On 6 May 1942, she and her siblings were picked up, assigned a family number, and taken to the Santa Fe Railway Station. From there, they were transported by train to Parker, Arizona. Afterward, they were taken by bus to Poston (Camp 1) in Arizona. She, her family, and relatives were released from the camp in September 1945.

Following the war, the family settled in Hawthorne, California. After the war, the couple co-established a nursery called the Prairie Nursery, which they later sold in 1963. The couple had three sons: Masao, Gerald, and Alan.
Undated. (Source: Buddhist Churches Of America)

Undated.
(Source: Buddhist Churches Of America)

At the age of 45, she pursued a Licensed Vocational Nursing license and attended the California Vocational Nursing School in Los Angeles. She secured a job at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the same city. In 1968, she accepted a position at Memorial Hospital of Gardena, where she worked until her retirement in 1984.
Yoshiko Miwa currently resides in Torrance, California, USA, at the age of 110.
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