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inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/California%27s_37th_State_Assembly_district" title="California's 37th State Assembly district">37th</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 7, 1992 – November 30, 1998</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cathie_Wright" title="Cathie Wright">Cathie Wright</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Strickland" title="Tony Strickland">Tony Strickland</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1922-04-05</span>)</span>April 5, 1922<br /><a href="/wiki/Oxnard,_California" title="Oxnard, California">Oxnard, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 19, 2009<span style="display:none">(2009-11-19)</span> (aged 87)<br />Oxnard, California</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">Stroke</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Judy Takasugi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Scott, Russell, Ron, <a href="/wiki/Tricia_Takasugi" title="Tricia Takasugi">Tricia</a> and Lea</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">University of California, Los Angeles</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Temple_University" title="Temple University">Temple University</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania">Wharton School of Business</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Politician</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Naoyuki "Nao" Takasugi</b> (<a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>: <span lang="ja">高杉直行</span> <i>Takasugi Naoyuki</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> April 5, 1922 – November 19, 2009) was an American politician from <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, and a survivor of the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_American_internment" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese American internment">Japanese American internment camps</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nao_Takasugi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Oxnard,_California" title="Oxnard, California">Oxnard, California</a>, Takasugi was the valedictorian of his <a href="/wiki/Oxnard_High_School" title="Oxnard High School">Oxnard High School</a> class and worked in the family grocery store, the Asahi Market, before he enrolled at <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles" title="University of California, Los Angeles">UCLA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Niiya_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Niiya-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the Japanese attack on <a href="/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor">Pearl Harbor</a> and President <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9066" title="Executive Order 9066">Executive Order 9066</a>, he was pulled out of the university at the age of 19 and <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans" title="Internment of Japanese Americans">removed with other Japanese Americans</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Tulare,_California" title="Tulare, California">Tulare</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Niiya_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Niiya-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later transferred to the <a href="/wiki/War_Relocation_Authority" title="War Relocation Authority">War Relocation Authority</a> camp at <a href="/wiki/Gila_River_War_Relocation_Center" title="Gila River War Relocation Center">Gila River</a>, Arizona.<sup id="cite_ref-rafu.com_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rafu.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1943, Takasugi became one of 4,000 students released from camp to continue college and relocated to the <a href="/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="East Coast of the United States">East Coast</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ventura_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ventura-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He earned his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> from <a href="/wiki/Temple_University" title="Temple University">Temple University</a> in 1945 and his <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">MBA</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Wharton_School_of_the_University_of_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania">Wharton School of Business</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> in 1946.<sup id="cite_ref-Niiya_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Niiya-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduating from the <a href="/wiki/Ivy_League" title="Ivy League">Ivy League</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He instead returned to Oxnard to work in his family's Asahi Market.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-Ventura_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ventura-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1952, Takasugi married his wife, Judy, with whom he had five children, Scott, Russell, Ron, <a href="/wiki/Tricia_Takasugi" title="Tricia Takasugi">Tricia</a> and Lea.<sup id="cite_ref-Ventura_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ventura-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_service">Public service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nao_Takasugi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Public service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/City_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="City Council">City Council</a> and won a four-year term in his first election in 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-Ventura_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ventura-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Takasugi won election to the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a> in 1992, then becoming the only <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian American</a> in the legislature at that time. A moderate, he succeeded conservative icon <a href="/wiki/Tom_McClintock" title="Tom McClintock">Tom McClintock</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Ventura_County,_California" title="Ventura County, California">Ventura County</a> based 37th district (formerly the 36th).<sup id="cite_ref-california_journal_july_1992_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-california_journal_july_1992-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won easy reelection in 1994 and 1996 but <a href="/wiki/Term_limit" title="Term limit">term limits</a> prevented him from running again in 1998. </p><p>In the year 2000 Takasugi ran for a seat on the board of the <a href="/wiki/Oxnard_Harbor_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxnard Harbor District">Oxnard Harbor District</a> and won. He remained in the position until retiring in 2008. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life">Later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nao_Takasugi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In his final year in the Assembly at the age of 76, Takasugi suffered a <a href="/wiki/Heart_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack">heart attack</a> while jogging outside his <a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento</a> apartment near the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Capitol" title="California State Capitol">California State Capitol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ventura_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ventura-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Takasugi family was featured in the book "<a href="/wiki/The_Greatest_Generation_(book)" title="The Greatest Generation (book)">The Greatest Generation</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brokaw" title="Tom Brokaw">Tom Brokaw</a>. 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".<sup id="cite_ref-rafu.com_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rafu.com-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the age of 87, Takasugi died of complications from a <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a> on November 19, 2009, at 8:20 P.M. at <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_Regional_Medical_Center_(California)" title="St. John's Regional Medical Center (California)">St. John's Regional Medical Center</a> in Oxnard. He was survived by his wife of 57 years, Judy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nao_Takasugi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em ; font-size:95%"> <caption>Member, <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a>: 1992–1998 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Office </th> <th>Winner </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Pct </th> <th>Second Place </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Pct </th> <th>Third Place </th> <th>Votes </th> <th>Pct </th></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br />District 37<br />Republican Nomination </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">11,590 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">31.0% </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Alan Gugenheim </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">8,570 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">22.9% </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Madge Schaefer </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">7,034 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">18.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br />District 37 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">66,364 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">50.8% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Roz McGrath </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" align="right">56,692 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">43.4% </td> <td style="background:#FED105">David Harner </td> <td style="background:#FED105" align="right">7,504 </td> <td style="background:#FED105">5.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br />District 37<br />Republican Nomination </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">25,381 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">100.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br /> District 37 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">66,035 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">64.5% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Dorothy Maron </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" align="right">31,738 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">31.0% </td> <td style="background:#FED105">David Harner </td> <td style="background:#FED105" align="right">4,660 </td> <td style="background:#FED105">4.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br />District 37<br />Republican Nomination </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">27,941 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">76.9% </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">Matt Noah </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">8,377 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">23.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td>1996 </td> <td>California State Assembly<br /> District 37 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>Nao Takasugi</b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6" align="right">73,167 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">59.7% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">Jess Herrera </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF" align="right">49,341 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.3% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yuriko_(dancer)" title="Yuriko (dancer)">Yuriko Kikuchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_MacDonald_(Navajo_leader)" title="Peter MacDonald (Navajo leader)">Peter MacDonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Matsui" title="Doris Matsui">Doris Matsui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Morita" title="Pat Morita">Pat Morita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Morris_Sr." title="Joe Morris Sr.">Joe Morris Sr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michi_Weglyn" title="Michi Weglyn">Michi Nishiura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isamu_Noguchi" title="Isamu Noguchi">Isamu Noguchi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Okamoto" title="Vincent Okamoto">Vincent Okamoto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_and_Miye_Ota" title="Ken and Miye Ota">Ken Ota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_and_Miye_Ota" title="Ken and Miye Ota">Miye Ota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Otani" title="Kazuo Otani">Kazuo Otani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Preston_Osborn" title="Sidney Preston Osborn">Sidney Preston Osborn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_I._Sano" title="Roy I. 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Love Field">Ernest A. Love Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falcon_Field_(Arizona)" title="Falcon Field (Arizona)">Falcon Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gila_Bend_Air_Force_Auxiliary_Field" title="Gila Bend Air Force Auxiliary Field">Gila Bend Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hereford_Army_Airfield" title="Hereford Army Airfield">Hereford Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingman_Airport_and_Industrial_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Kingman Airport and Industrial Park">Kingman Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laguna_Army_Airfield" title="Laguna Army Airfield">Laguna Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_Air_Force_Base" title="Luke Air Force Base">Luke Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinal_Airpark" title="Pinal Airpark">Marana Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryan_Airfield" title="Ryan Airfield">Ryan Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sahuarita_Flight_Strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahuarita Flight Strip">Sahuarita Flight 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