Hidenari terasaki biography of barack obama

Hidenari Terasaki was born in Tokyo in 1900. He graduated from Ichiko preparatory school and earned a degree in law from Tokyo Imperial University. A month after graduation he joined the Foreign Ministry and traveled to the United States for post-graduate work at Brown University, where he studied English literature.

He was fluent in Chinese, German, French, Spanish and English.

In September 1929, Terasaki was assigned to the Japanese embassy in Washington as an attaché. He met Gwendolyn Harold, a beautiful, engaging twenty-three year old native of East Tennessee, at an embassy reception in 1930.

Hidenari terasaki biography of barack obama president

An ardent courtship followed. After overcoming initial resistance from Gwen’s family and the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the couple married in November 1931.

The foreign ministry posted Terasaki to Shanghai in 1932, where their daughter and only child, Mariko, was born in August.

In 1936 Terasaki was appointed Charge de Affai