Gender

Male

Birth date

1921-11-17

Place of birth

Brawley CA, USA

Inducted

1944,

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

8th Army Occupation Force, 555th Military Police Battalion, Sugano Prison, Japan

Additional information

Residence: Los Angeles, CA. Earned BS in Business Administration from Cal Berkeley and a MBA from USC. In 1949, he joined the City of Los Angeles and rose to General Manager, Data Services Bureau, becoming the city's first Japanese American department head. Under his leadership, early information technology was brought to the city, forever changing how Los Angeles and other government municipalities manged data. He retired after 28 years of service.