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Michael Makoto "Mike" Honda ((日本語:本田実); born June 27, 1941) is an American politician. He serves as the U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district, known as Silicon Valley, which is the only Asian American-majority district in the continental United States. The district encompasses all or part of the cities of Cupertino, Fremont, Milpitas, Newark, Santa Clara, San Jose, and Sunnyvale. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has been serving in Congress since 2001. ==Background== A third generation Japanese American ("sansei"), Honda was born in Walnut Grove, California, in 1941. His grandparents were from Kumamoto prefecture and emigrated to USA in the early 1900s,〔 "Honda, a Democratic congressman and third-generation Japanese-American"〕 and both of his parents were born in California.〔 When he was one year old, he and his family were sent to Camp Amache, a Japanese American internment camp in southeastern Colorado.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet Mike | Congressman Mike Honda )〕 In 1953 his family returned to California, where they became strawberry sharecroppers in Blossom Valley in San Jose.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Immigration | Congressman Mike Honda )〕 Honda started at Andrew P. Hill High School, then transferred to, and graduated from, San Josė High Academy.〔 He entered San Josė State University, but interrupted his studies from 1965 to 1967 to serve in the United States Peace Corps in El Salvador, where he learned to speak Spanish. He returned to San Jose State, where in 1968 he received a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences and Spanish. He earned a master's degree in Education from San Jose State in 1974. In his 30-year career as an educator, Honda was a science teacher, a principal at two public schools, a school board member, and he conducted educational research at Stanford University. Honda’s wife, Jeanne, was a kindergarten teacher at Baldwin Elementary School in San José. She died in February 2004. He has two children: Mark, an aerospace engineer, living in Torrence, and Michelle, a marketing and communications manager, in San Jose. Michelle is the mother of one daughter and two sons. In February 2015, Honda's announcement that he is a "proud ''jichan''", or grandfather, of his transgender granddaughter Malisa gained regional, national, and international coverage.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transgender grandchild: Rep. Mike Honda says 8-year-old's gender change not a phase )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Honda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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