Yuka was born on Valentine's Day to an average family. Her parents were photographers and travelers and fell in love with Japanese culture. When planning for baby names, they had written down the name 優花 (Yūka) which translates to excellence, superiority, gentlenes (yu/優) and flower, blossom (ka/花).
Yuka grew up in a regular lower middle class family and attended all of her schooling in the United States where she was born. Growing up she heard so many different things about Japan and her parents tried to get her involved with the culture as well. Yuka never really shared the same interest that her family seemed to have with the country, and she never particularily enjoyed her name either. She always felt her parents set her up for impossible expectations with the meaning of the first kanji in her name "yu". She would listen to the "lessons" her parents would teach her about Japan from elementary school all the way up to her graduation from highschool. Although she never shared the same passion, she ended up taking a study abroad offer to Japan from the college she decided to go to for her business and economics major. After she got accepted for the program, she was told she would be going to the city of Morioh.
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