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Nao Takasugi was born on 5 April, 1922 in Oxnard, California, U.S., is an American politician and survivor of Japanese American internment camps. Discover Nao Takasugi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Politician
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 5 April, 1922
Birthday 5 April
Birthplace Oxnard, California, U.S.
Date of death 19 November, 2009
Died Place Oxnard, California
Nationality United States

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His wife is Judy Takasugi

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Children Scott, Russell, Ron, Tricia and Lea

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1907

The Takasugi family had opened the store in 1907 and had left it in the custody of employee Ignacio Carmona when they were forced to enter camp.

Upon the Takasugis' return from Gila River, Carmona returned control of the store to the Takasugis.

1922

Nao Takasugi (April 5, 1922 – November 19, 2009) was an American politician from California, a member of the Republican Party, and a survivor of the Japanese American internment camps.

Born and raised in Oxnard, California, Takasugi was the valedictorian of his Oxnard High School class and worked in the family grocery store, the Asahi Market, before he enrolled at UCLA.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, he was pulled out of the university at the age of 19 and removed with other Japanese Americans to the Tulare Assembly Center, where he shared a converted horse stall with his family.

While in Tulare, Takasugi worked as a teacher's aide at the camp high school, teaching business and Spanish.

He was later transferred to the War Relocation Authority camp at Gila River, Arizona.

1937

A moderate, he succeeded conservative icon Tom McClintock in the Ventura County based 37th district (formerly the 36th).

1943

In February 1943, Takasugi became one of 4,000 students released from camp to continue college and relocated to the East Coast.

1945

He earned his bachelor's degree from Temple University in 1945 and his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946.

After graduating from the Ivy League school, he applied to multiple accounting firms in Philadelphia; he was turned down at each firm, later explaining, "They'd say, 'With that Asian face, we can't put you in the field."

He instead returned to Oxnard to work in his family's Asahi Market.

1952

In 1952, Takasugi married his wife, Judy, with whom he had five children, Scott, Russell, Ron, Tricia and Lea.

1976

After the City of Oxnard turned down his efforts to get a new sign for his family's market, Takasugi felt the city needed someone with a head for business to cut through the bureaucracy and decided to run for the City Council and won a four-year term in his first election in 1976.

1980

He was reelected to the council in 1980 and then was elected Mayor of Oxnard in 1982.

Takasugi won re-election as Mayor four more times before winning election to the Assembly.

1992

Takasugi won election to the California State Assembly in 1992, then becoming the only Asian American in the legislature at that time.

1994

He won easy reelection in 1994 and 1996 but term limits prevented him from running again in 1998.

2000

In the year 2000 Takasugi ran for a seat on the board of the Oxnard Harbor District and won.

2008

He remained in the position until retiring in 2008.

In his final year in the Assembly at the age of 76, Takasugi suffered a heart attack while jogging outside his Sacramento apartment near the California State Capitol.

The Takasugi family was featured in the book "The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw.

During his interview with Brokaw, Nao Takasugi said "I find that I am compelled to remember the best – not the worst – of that time. To focus not on the grave deprivation of rights which beset us all, but rather on the countless shining moments of virtue that emerged from the shadows of that dark hour".

2009

At the age of 87, Takasugi died of complications from a stroke on November 19, 2009, at 8:20 P.M. at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard.

He was survived by his wife of 57 years, Judy.