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In another era, he might have been described as an all-American boy. He was a hardworking farm kid who crank-started the tractor by himself when he was 14. He saved his dollar-a-week allowance to buy a chemistry set. At the library, he checked out science books.
In that era, however, Yoshiro “Yosh” Tokiwa was not going to be an all-American boy.
