Tosiwo Nakayama

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Tosiwo Nakayama bigraphy, stories - President of Federated States of Micronesia

Tosiwo Nakayama : biography

November 23, 1931 – March 29, 2007

Tosiwo Nakayama (November 23, 1931 in Chuuk – March 29, 2007) was the first President of the Federated States of Micronesia. He served two terms from 1979 until 1987.

Biography

He was born in Chuuk, to the son of a Japanese father and a native mother,; and is the older brother of FSM’s ambassador to Japan, Masao Nakayama.: The National Union, Volume 10, Number 12, December 1989

Nakayama died on March 29, 2007 at Hawaii Medical Center West in Honolulu, Hawaii at the age of 75.