Terahertz Pioneer: Tatsuo Itoh "Transmission Lines and Antennas: Left and Right"

Abstract

Professor Tatsuo Itoh acquired his professional work ethic at a young age. Waking up well before dawn to help with deliveries in his father's milk business, spending the day in classes, the evening doing tutoring, and much of the time between twilight and dawn on his schoolwork, Itoh had little time for any self-indulgence. One of three boys growing up in the Yokosuka Naval district, south of Yokohama, Japan, immediately following World War II, Tatsuo remembers playing with handmade toys, especially wooden trains and paper objects he fashioned himself. His parents had graduated from teachers' colleges and had been school teachers before the war, but his father had a difficult time getting steady work in the reconstruction years. They both had strong commitments to learning and they sent Tatsuo to a Jesuit high school with the best reputation for quality teaching in the district. Eiko Gakuen still exists today and is ranked in the top 10 of 4000 high schools in Japan.

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