Shizuoka, Shizuoka
Tokita was born July 16, 1897, in the coastal city of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, to Juhei Tokita and Shin Kato Tokita. He had an older brother, Wahei, and three younger sisters. His father, Juhei, owned a soy sauce manufacturing business and ran a family-owned dry tea shop. As in many middle-class families of the Meiji Era, great importance was placed on both traditional Japanese values and modern, Western-style education.