Welcome to my Website…. I’ve been an entrepreneur for all of my adult life. I was born in 1943 during WWII (in a Japanese-American Relocation Camp). After the war ended we were released and my dad took us to Denver to look for work. Denver didn’t work out very well so we moved back to my grandma’s place in Seattle, WA.
Life was tough for the Japanese-American community after the war. There was a tremendous amount of prejudice. I was too young to understand what was going on, but I still remember my Chinese-American schoolmates wearing badges that read “I am Chinese not Japanese”.
During college I majored in Business Accounting and we studied a lot of companies like IBM, Boeing, GE. Ford, etc. I was looking for ways to start a business and one of my classmates introduced me to the Manager of a company called MESBIC (Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Corporation). MESBIC helped me write a Business Plan and eventually awarded me a (life-changing) small business Start-Up Loan. It was a small amount of money but enough to allow me to launch my entrepreneurial career. more2…..
