Randy Tada
Randy Tada is a technical writer and editor who resides in Bellevue, Washington. He has collaborated on two auto-biographical books by Kay Hirai: Keiko’s Journey and Sheer Determination and is an occasional contributor to The North American Post.
Updated November 2019
Stories from This Author
LISTEN IN… 9 Questions The Honorable Norman Mineta - Part 2
Jan. 15, 2020 • Randy Tada
Read Part 1 >> When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, how was your family impacted? On December 7th, a lot of things happened quickly. By one or two o’clock that afternoon, the FBI had arrested a number of people of Japanese ancestry. They were really looking for people who were sympathetic to the Japanese and who might be supportive of their war efforts. At about 1:30 p.m. that afternoon, I remember hearing our next-door neighbor, Joyce …
LISTEN IN… 9 Questions - The Honorable Norman Mineta - Part 1
Jan. 14, 2020 • Randy Tada
Norman Mineta is well-known and admired for his many notable achievements, among them being the first person to serve as a cabinet member under both a Democratic and a Republican president – U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush. When he was elected to office in San Jose, he was the first Japanese American mayor of a large U.S. city. Later, he became the first Japanese American elected to …
