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          Moriguchi led the board at Uwajimaya for nearly five decades, but he traces his start in the business to his childhood in Tacoma.!

          Tomio Moriguchi

          American businessman and civil rights activist

          Tomio Moriguchi (森口 富雄, Moriguchi Tomio, born 1936) is an American businessman and civil rights activist who served as CEO of the Uwajimaya supermarket chain in Seattle, Washington, from 1965 to 2007.[2]

          Biography

          Moriguchi was born in Tacoma, Washington, to Fujimatsu Moriguchi and Sadako Tsutakawa.

          He is the nephew of George Tsutakawa.[3] During World War II, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, his family was interned at Pinedale, California, and then at Tule Lake.

          TM: So as my father, he learned, he was born in the city of Yawatahama, which Ehime-ken.

        1. TM: So as my father, he learned, he was born in the city of Yawatahama, which Ehime-ken.
        2. Tomio Moriguchi, publisher of the NAP, and his family, have been chosen as the recipients of the Seattle-King County “First Citizen Award.
        3. Moriguchi led the board at Uwajimaya for nearly five decades, but he traces his start in the business to his childhood in Tacoma.
        4. Densho Digital Archive Densho Visual History Collection Title: Tomio Moriguchi Interview II Narrator: Tomio Moriguchi Interviewer: Becky Fukuda.
        5. He grew up to become one of Seattle's best-known business entrepreneurs and civic activists.

          6. After the war, the family moved to Seattle's Japantown where Moriguchi's father re-established Uwajimaya on South Main Street. [citation needed]

          After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in mechanical engineering, Moriguchi worked at Boeing as an engineer, but left after his father's death to run Uwajimaya.

          He served as CEO and president of Uwajimaya beginning in 1965. During his t