Jean Davies Okimoto: Hello, my name is Jean Davies Okimoto. Okimoto is actually my husband's name. He's Asian American, and when he was in high school, he played football, and his teammates call him locomotive, but in the Japanese language, Okimoto means horizon, which I think is much prettier than locomotive. The thing to remember is that the letter I in Japanese is pronounced e, so my last name is Okimoto.