Daniel Okimoto

Okimoto was born at the Santa Anita Assembly Center during the early stages of the World War II Internment of Japanese Americans. As an infant, he was sent along with his family to the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona as part of the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.{{cite web | last = Naito | first = Yasuo | title = Okimoto on Life in America: Realizing Dreams That Eluded Our Issei Parents | url = http://japan-forward.com/okimoto-on-life-in-america-realizing-dreams-that-eluded-our-issei-parents/ | date = 2017-12-29 | access-date = 2017-12-30 | archive-date = 2017-12-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171231051556/http://japan-forward.com/okimoto-on-life-in-america-realizing-dreams-that-eluded-our-issei-parents/ | url-status = live }}

A roommate and friend of Bill Bradley at Princeton University,{{Cite news |last=Gellman |first=Barton |last2=Russakoff |first2=Dale |date=December 13, 1999 |title=At Princeton, Bradley Met Impossible Demands |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/13/bradley.htm |work=The Washington Post |page=A1}} Okimoto graduated cum laude in 1965, and his postgraduate studies at Harvard University earned a master's degree in 1967. He continued his studies at the University of Tokyo from 1968 through 1970. His Ph.D. in political sciences was conferred by the University of Michigan in 1975.{{Cite web |url=http://polisci.stanford.edu/faculty/cv/okimoto.pdf |title=Okimoto CV. |access-date=2009-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719082039/http://polisci.stanford.edu/faculty/cv/okimoto.pdf |archive-date=2010-07-19 |url-status=dead }}

Okimoto is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also Director Emeritus and co-founder of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia/Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University. Shorenstein APARC[http://aparc.stanford.edu/ Shorenstein APARC web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816010831/http://aparc.stanford.edu/ |date=2000-08-16 }}. is part of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University.[http://fsi.stanford.edu/ FSI web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831144250/http://fsi.stanford.edu/ |date=2009-08-31 }}.

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• 1988 -- The Japan-American Security Alliance: Prospect for the Twenty-First Century. Stanford: Asia/Pacific Research Center, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. {{OCLC|39677150}}Stanford University, Dept. of Political Science: [http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/okimoto.html Okimoto faculty bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801130535/http://politicalscience.stanford.edu/faculty/okimoto.html |date=2009-08-01 }}.
• 1984 -- Competitive Edge: the Semiconductor Industry in the U.S. and Japan with Takuo Sugano, Franklin B. Weinstein, M. Thérèse Flaherty. Stanford: Stanford University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-8047-1225-5}}; [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10640450 OCLC 10640450]
• 1971 -- American in Disguise. New York: Walker/Weatherhill. {{ISBN|978-0-8027-2438-0}}; {{OCLC|130056}}

• Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2007.{{cite web| title=Daniel L. Okimoto: SCJS '63| url=https://web.stanford.edu/dept/IUC/cgi-bin/about/pdfs/ORS_Okimoto.pdf| access-date=2021-12-05}}
• Prime Minister's Commendation, 2004.[http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/professor_daniel_okimoto_receives_japanese_foreign_ministers_commendation_20040526/ "Professor Daniel Okimoto receives Japanese foreign minister's commendation,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929234256/http://aparc.stanford.edu/news/professor_daniel_okimoto_receives_japanese_foreign_ministers_commendation_20040526/ |date=2011-09-29 }} Shorenstein APARC News. May 26, 2004.

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• Okimoto, Daniel I. (1971). American in Disguise. New York: Walker/Weatherhill. {{ISBN|978-0-8027-2438-0}}; {{OCLC|130056}}

• {{cite web | last = Naito | first = Yasuo | title=Interview with Stanford's Dr. Okimoto: Japan Has to Ride Waves of Tech Transformation |url=https://japan-forward.com/interview-with-stanfords-dr-okimoto-japan-has-to-ride-waves-of-tech-transformation/| date=2017-12-26}}
• {{cite web | last = Naito | first = Yasuo | title=Okimoto on Life in America: Realizing Dreams That Eluded Our Issei Parents |url=http://japan-forward.com/okimoto-on-life-in-america-realizing-dreams-that-eluded-our-issei-parents/| date=2017-12-29}}
• {{cite web | last = Naito | first = Yasuo | title=From Internment Camp to Princeton to Stanford: Okimoto's American Journey |url=https://japan-forward.com/from-internment-camp-to-princeton-to-stanford-okimotos-american-journey/| date=2017-12-30}}

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