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(Jerome Charles White Jr.),Jero

Trying to convey the meaning of the songs

(b. 1981) Enka Singer

Yamashiro,Michelle

On Nikkei identity

Okinawan American whose parents are from Peru.

Mineta,Norman Yoshio

“No racial profiling”

(b. 1931) U.S. Former Secretary of Transportation

Kochiyama,Yuri

Joining the movement

(1922–2014) Political and civil rights activist.

Murakami,Jimmy

First Short Film

(1933 – 2014) Japanese American animator

Yamano,Jane Aiko

Preserving traditional Japanese culture

(b.1964) California-born business woman in Japan. A successor of her late grandmother, who started a beauty business in Japan.

Uesugi,Takeo

His father urged him to go to the US

(1940-2016) Issei Landscape Architect

Narumi,Margaret

Nomo's American Debut

Producer at NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.

Yuzawa,George Katsumi

Death of sister in October 1942

(1915 - 2011) Nisei florist who resettled in New York City after WW II. Active in Japanese American civil rights movement

Tamashiro,Masaki

His future in Argentina (Japanese)

Okinawan. Vice Principal of Japanese language school in Buenos Aires

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