Toshiya Kuge

Toshiya Kuge

Quick Facts

Significance:

Flight 93 Passenger

Date of Birth:

01/11/1981

Date of Death:

09/11/2001

Age: 20
Hometown: Osaka, Japan
Occupation: Student, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Reason for travel: Vacation

Toshiya Kuge of Osaka, Japan was an athlete and scholar who was determined to become proficient in English and earn a master’s degree in engineering from an American university. He loved American football and was a linebacker in his first year of college at Waseda University where he was an engineering student. On this two-week vacation, and second trip to the United States, the friendly, outgoing college sophomore went whitewater rafting in the Canadian Rockies and visited Niagara Falls and the Statue of Liberty. Kuge traveled alone in order to immerse himself in the English language. Flight 93 was the first leg of Kuge’s journey home. He was survived by his parents and a brother.