State Representative Gregg Takayama is proud to serve District 34, consisting of the Pearl City, Waiau, and Pacific Palisades communities, where he has lived for several decades with his wife Linda Chu Takayama and raised their three daughters.1
Rep. Takayama is a product of the public school system and a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in journalism. He is a former award-winning journalist who worked at KHON-TV as a news reporter for eight years.
Rep. Takayama also served on the staffs of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye and then-Lt. Governor Ben Cayetano. He was spokesman for UH Manoa for six years until he was elected to the State House in 2012.
He currently serves as Vice Chair of the House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs (JHA.) Additionally, he is a member of the Corrections, Military & Veterans (CMV,) and Water & Land (WAL) committees.
