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Kazuomi Takagi

(b. 1925) La Plata Hochi, Journalist

George Yoshida

(b. 1922) Musician

Doris Moromisato

(b. 1962) Peruvian Poet, Okinawan descendant

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

(b. 1931) Shin-Issei Social Worker

Bill Hashizume

(b. 1922) Canadian Nisei who was unable to return to ...

Miyoko Amano

(b. 1929) President of Amano Museum

Norman Yoshio Mineta

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

Paulo Issamu Hirano

(b. 1979) Sansei Nikkei Brazilian who lives in Oizumi-machi in ...

Richard Mamiya

(b.1925) Sansei, cardiovascular surgeon.

Margarida Tomi Watanabe

(1900–1996) The mother of Nikkei Brazilian immigration

Robert T. Fujioka

(b. 1952) Former banking executive, born in Hawaii

Miko Kaihara

(b. 1924) Hairdresser. Incarcerated at Poston, Arizona.

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