Norman Mineta, who became the first Japanese-American minister in the United States and responded to the terrorist attacks in 2001 as Secretary of Transportation, died.

He was 90 years old.

Norman Mineta was born in 1931 in San Jose, Western California, as a second-generation Japanese-American.

During World War II, Japanese Americans were considered "enemy aliens" and about 120,000 were forcibly sent to the camp, and Mineta also had a harsh boyhood in the camp.



After that, after working as the mayor of his hometown of San Jose, he served as a member of the House of Representatives for about 20 years from 1975. We focused on the establishment of.



And in 2000, he became Secretary of Commerce under the Clinton administration and was the first Nikkei minister.



In 2001, with the inauguration of the Bush administration, he became Secretary of Transportation, responding to the terrorist attacks in September of that year.



After the terrorist attack, he worked hard to ensure the safety of the sky and urged not to carry out racial and ethnic security checks as Middle Eastern citizens were harassed.



According to the Japanese American National Museum, chaired by Mineta, Mineta died at his home in eastern Maryland on the 3rd.



According to American media, his cause of death was heart disease.