Naoki Kamiya
Naoki Kamiya was born on Feb. 8, 1959, in Tokyo, Japan to parents Kunio and Akiko, and brother Shigeki who was six years his senior. He spent most of his childhood years living in Tokyo with a short time spent living in Rome around age 5. His father was a commercial 747 pilot for Japan Airlines and they moved to Moses Lake for two years when Naoki was 14 so his father could train other pilots at the air base there. When his parents decided to return to Japan, Naoki (age 16) wanted to stay in the United States to complete high school and he graduated from Moses Lake High School in 1977. Naoki went on to pursue both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., and graduated in May 1984. It was in an undergraduate class in Circuits that he was a teaching assistant for a young, lovely undergrad named Flo Hausler. (Flo bashfully admits that she got an A in that class, but Naoki told her they could not date until the class ended.) The rest is magic …
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