He attended Mount Vernon Junior High School and served as Boys Senior Board President at Los Angeles High School. In Takei's own words, 'My aunt and baby cousin found burnt in a ditch in Hiroshima.' At the end of World War II, after leaving Tule internment camp, Takei's family were left without any bank accounts, home or family business this left them unable to find any housing, so they lived on Skid Row, Los Angeles for five years. Among them, he had an aunt and infant cousin who lived in Hiroshima and who were both killed during the atomic bombing that destroyed the city. Takei had several relatives living in Japan during World War II.

The family was later transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California for internment. The internment camp was in swamplands and surrounded by barbed wire fences. In 1942, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, the Takei family was forced to live in the converted horse stables of Santa Anita Park before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment in Rohwer, Arkansas.

His father named him George after King George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place in 1937, shortly after Takei's birth.

Takei was born Hosato Takei on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, to Japanese American parents Fumiko Emily Nakamura (born in Sacramento, California) and Takekuma Norman Takei (born in Yamanashi Prefecture), who worked in real estate. He has won several awards and accolades for his work on human rights and Japan–United States relations, including his work with the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. Īlthough Takei was born and raised in California, he spoke both English and Japanese growing up and remains fluent in both languages.

He has been a vocal advocate of the rights of immigrants, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway show Allegiance, about the internment experience. Upon coming out as gay in 2005, he became a prominent proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s. Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in U.S.-run internment camps during World War II. George Takei ( / t ə ˈ k eɪ/, tə- KAY born Hosato Takei ( 武井穂郷, Takei Hosato) April 20, 1937) is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.

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