Talk:Norman Mineta

Japanese transliteration
Why is there a Japanese transliteration of Mineta's name? He is an American, and has been all his life. It seems peculiar, akin to giving the Gaelic transliteration of Irish-American names, or the names of German-Americans written in Gothic letters. If there's not a good reason for it, I think it should be removed. (Or, if it has to stay, at least extend him the dignity of finding the kanji characters for his name. Using katakana seems rather inauthentic; it's doubtful that his parents would've written it that way, but rather it appears to be a phonetic transliteration of an American name back into Japanese for a Japanese audience.) Gusuku (talk) 00:47, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I was really surprised at the katakana, I thought Mineta had been born overseas. But he wasn't. The Kanji characters are most likely to have been given to him by his parents since he does carry a full Japanese name. That would be appropriate. Most Japanese today are familiar with romanji and would be able to assume what his name sounds like. .:davumaya:. 19:13, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

September 11
This section needs to be rewritten. It's not clear what the boxed quotation is referring to, and it's not clear what the relationship between the incident described in the boxed quotation and that described below is, and it's not clear what the general point of the section is.217.44.180.84 (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

- I agree. I fail to see how Minetas account is rather different from Woodwards. They seem to tell two stories that do not contradict. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.218.204.50 (talk) 05:19, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

- I agree that the point of the differing timelines is unclear. Worse yet, both timelines are wrong, and so are other details. Norman Mineta was considerably confused about what he witnessed and when. As a matter of fact, he did not enter the PEOC (White House bunker) until after 10:03, when the last plane (UA93) crashed. What the "aide" was calling out then was not the radar position of AA77; instead, it was the virtual position of UA93 in a system called Traffic Situation Display (TSD), which displays flight progress according to flight plans. TSD did not know that UA93 had crash and instead displayed it as flying to, and landing at, Reagan National Airport, near the Pentagon. Here is an article on this by Miles Kara, a staffer on the 9/11 Commission: http://www.oredigger61.org/?p=4989 --2A02:908:1658:4240:B49B:8DB8:BBF4:4A9 (talk) 22:07, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

- ignores fact his dept FAILED to notice multiple hijackings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.38.155.134 (talk) 09:11, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Ordering the grounding of all commercial flights
Where was Norman Mineta when he issued the order to ground all commercial aircraft?

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Electoral History
He should definitely have an electoral history section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:8501:4BA:ADF1:2B7C:4DDC:EB69 (talk) 18:08, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Add WWII internment to Personal Life
He & his family were interned in a WWII Japanese internment camp by the US government. This needs to be added to the article. The recent PBS legacy program is one source. — Lentower (talk) 14:14, 19 May 2019 (UTC)