Family History
Born in Kahului, Hawaii, Iwatake was the eldest son of six children and was raised in Kahului. His father, a Kobayashi store employee, presumed drowned from a fishing trip at Peahi. With the loss of the family breadwinner, his mother, four brothers, and one sister moved to Hiroshima, Japan, to live with an uncle in November, 1940. Warren stayed on Maui to graduate from Maui High School 1941. Six months before Pearl Harbor, he left to rejoin his family in Japan.
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