They attended Sunday school regularly at the Japanese Independent Congregational Church of Oakland.
, though they did speak Japanese at home even though both parents spoke and read English well. The girls took piano lessons and the family went to concerts and museums, while also taking memorable vacations to the East Coast and to Japan. The family lived in a rented home in an area of Berkeley that had been previously restricted to whites. Yoshiko and her older sister Keiko (1918–2008) enjoyed a relatively privileged upbringing. That same year, teachers at Doshisha helped to arrange a marriage between Takashi and Iku, a 1914 graduate who was nine years younger. In 1917, he left to join the San Francisco branch of Mitsui and Company. He eventually worked for Seattle Issei business magnate Masajiro Furuya, eventually managing the Portland, Oregon, branch of the M. Takashi migrated to Hawai'i in around 1903, where he taught Japanese, and came to California three years later. Both were Christian and graduates of Doshisha University. Parents Dwight Takashi Uchida (1884–1971) and Iku Umegaki Uchida (1893–1966).
Yoshiko Uchida was born on November 24, 1921, to
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