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James Masao Mitsui was born on February 4, 1940, to Minoru and Shime Mitsui in Snohomish, Washington. His father was a railroad worker on the Great Northern Railroad and his mother was a homemaker. Part of his childhood was spent at the Tule Lake Relocation Camp during World War II where Japanese Americans were interned. He attended high school in Odessa, Washington, before enrolling at Eastern Washington University, where he earned a B.A. in education in 1963. He also earned a B.A. in 1973 and an M.A. in 1975 from the University of Washington. Mitsui began teaching English for the Renton School District in 1966. On August 7, 1986, he married Lilly Kramer. The couple had six children. Mitsui retired in 1999 after thirty-four years of high- school teaching. He moved from Washington to Idaho where he lived on a lake. |
