Dave Tatsuno

Dave Tatsuno (born Masaharu Tatsuno August 18, 1913 – January 26, 2006, in San Jose, California)[1] was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in his family's internment camp during World War II.

[2] After graduation, he went to work at Nichi Bei Bussan, a San Francisco department store his father established in 1902.

[2] Upon Tatsuno's release from Topaz in 1945, he reopened his store but moved his family to San Jose in 1948 after his 7-year-old son died during a routine tonsillectomy.

Besides being a prominent civic leader, he spent most of his post-war years running Nichi Bei Bussan and had opened a second one in San Jose after relocating his family there.

[4] Tatsuno was predeceased by his wife Alice (died in 2005; née Okada), whom he married in 1938, and a son.