Michio Sasaki

Photo: donpu.net, 2016

Japanese

1946

Michio Sasaki joined the Japanese Computer Technique Group (CTG) in December 1968 and supplied the labor and organization the group needed as it shipped exhibitions around the world. A Waseda University commerce student and Dixieland jazz trumpeter, by his own account he knew little about computers when he joined. In 1971 he returned to his native Akita for a thirty-five-year career in the prefectural government.

Full Bio

Michio Sasaki brought to the group a wide variety of interest: Waseda University commerce student, Dixieland jazz trumpeter, wrestler, one-time secretary to a member of the Diet, and organizer of the 1967 Japan Student Cuba Friendship Inspection Delegation. He met Tsuchiya at a party of the Japan–Cuba Cultural Exchange Institute and joined as the group entered its busiest year — by his own account knowing nothing about computers, and drawn by the company he would keep.

Sasaki joined in December 1968 and supplied the labor and organization CTG needed as it shipped exhibitions around the world.

In 1971 he returned to his native Akita for a thirty-five-year career in the prefectural government, followed by a busy retirement as a community organizer: regional newsletters, a music museum, memorial monuments, and international aid projects.