Biography

July 29, 1943 · Tokyo, Japan

James Susumu Ishida

Ishida's mother, Sue, who passed away on August 25, 2010 was a schoolteacher and administrator for many years in the Lodi, California Unified School District, where she was also Director of Instructional Materials.

Presently lives with wife Margaret, and family in California.

He and his family were once detainees at a Japanese internment camp for little over a year during World War II in Rohwer, Arkansas and were released shortly after the war ended in 1945.