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Kazue Togasaki (June 29, 1897 – December 15, 1992) was an obstetrician, best known for being one of two of the first Japanese American women to earn a medical degree in the United States. During World War II, Togasaki had medical responsiblities including delivering babies at Tanforan assembly center and the relocation camps where she was held. During her career, she delivered more than 10,000 babies.

Of her siblings, she was the oldest sister. As children, they endured the 1906 earthquake and fire. When she went to school with her brothers and one other person, they were the only Japanese-American students and were told to go to Japanese school until the Japanese government intervened and fought for them to attend the school the previously attended. All of her sisters became nurses or doctors.