Nakano and his family were eventually reunited with his father in Jerome, Ark., the location of one of 10 Western camps hastily constructed to hold the 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who fell under Executive Order 9066, signed by President Roosevelt on Feb. 19, 1942.
Nakano's immigrant father was among the internees who would not forswear allegiance to Japan; barred by law from becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen, he could not imagine renouncing Japan and being stateless.
Nakano blamed her death on the primitive conditions in the camps, where rain turned the grounds to mud and wintry air seeped through the walls of their barracks.
Nakano was a superb diver and field biologist, the best I have ever known, but I know from personal experiences during grueling field work in the mountains of Japan and Montana that he would never have left his friends to swim to the nearest island more than a kilometer away and save himself.
Shigeru Nakano was born 25 November 1962 and raised in Kamioka, a small town in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture in central Japan.
Nakano's generosity and outgoing personality were well known by the many foreign scientists he and others hosted in Japan, and by everyone I spoke to that Nakano and his colleagues encountered at Berkeley and Davis during their final visit.
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