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Togo Nishiura, born in California in November 1931, is the second of seven children of the immigrants Shingo and Chiyoko Nishiura. He spent the war years of 1942-1945 in the Heart Mountain Relocation Center with the extended Nishiura family consisting of three generations of immigrants and two generations born in the United States. After the end of World War II, Togo attended and graduated from Mountain View Union High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from San Jose State College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Purdue University. Togo spent most of his university career at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he raised five children with his wife, Eleanor. He now lives in retirement with Eleanor near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo taken by Elizabeth Nishiura)
Updated January 2015