Who is Kyle Wright?

2006-01-12T04:23:00.012-05:00

I, Kyle Rowe Wright, was born in Las Vegas (1968) the youngest of five to the then Klara Rowe Wright and Frank Thomas Wright. I grew up in Las Vegas until the middle of the 5th grade (I went to George E. Harris Elementary School which was a just one street over from our house at 3689 Madrid Street (street view)) and then moved to Clinton, Mississippi with my family.

I then moved with my family to Washington, Utah (St. George) before the start of 6th grade and lived there (in a house at 2000 S -- at the time we were about the only house around) until going to Japan to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1987-89) in the Japan Nagoya Mission.

I returned to Las Vegas upon coming home from Japan and went to UNLV for a semester and worked as a tour guide at Yahiro Tour Services (at the time Yahiro handled almost all of the JTB and Kintetsu tours so we were pretty busy -- I must have flown to the Grand Canyon about a hundred times). I then transferred to BYU in January 1991 to study Japanese. I married Yukari Kamimura on August 22, 1992 in the Las Vegas Temple.

I graduated from BYU in April 1993 and then moved to Inuyama, Aichi so I could start working as an in-house translator/interpreter. Our oldest son, Hikaru Adam, was born on April 10, 1995.

We bought a house and moved to Matsuyama, Ehime in December 2001. Our second son, Noah Nozomi, was born on October 1, 2003.

In August 2006 I moved to Ohio to start work at Honda R&D. Yukari, Hikaru and Noah joined me in February 2007.

In April 2008 Yukari left us. In December 2008 we divorced. I have custody of Hikaru and Noah and we still live in Ohio.

(A disclaimer on my name: My dad is actually a second generation Italian and has since changed his name back to deCesare. He had taken on his step-father's name of Wright when he was younger. Now, since my brother has also changed his last name to deCesare and all my sisters are married, I am the only Wright left among my siblings and parents.)

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