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Frank Abe

Frank Abe is producer/director of the award-winning PBS documentary, CONSCIENCE AND THE CONSTITUTION. He helped produce the two original ...

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Michael Kenji Abe

Michael Kenji Abe is a third generation Japanese Canadian, born and raised in Ontario, Canada. His grandparents immigrated to Canada ...

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Sara Kumiko Koike Abiusi

Sara Kumiko Koike Abiusi grew up in Winter Haven, Florida. She completed her Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from ...

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Dean Ryuta Adachi

Dean Ryuta Adachi is a half-yonsei, half-shin-nisei from Northern California. He is currently a PhD candidate in American History at ...

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Stephanie Adachi

Stephanie Adachi was born on June 27, 1996, and is originally from Burbank, California. She is currently a fourth-year student ...

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Avril Adams

Avril Adams has been writing short stories for a number of years in various genres. Her most recent publication credit ...

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Susan Aihoshi

Susan Aihoshi is a sansei writer and editor who was born in Toronto and has worked in publishing for most ...

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Silvia Lumy Akioka

Silvia Lumy Akioka is a third-generation Japanese Brazilian. She had the experience of living in Japan as dekasegi and on ...

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Kaori Akiyama

Kaori Akiyama is a museum professional and researcher who was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. She lived in Hawai‘i ...

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Patrick Alvarado

Patrick Alvarado has been part of the Nishi family for more than 25 years, and has had a strong interest ...

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Jimmy Seiji Amemiya Siu

Jimmy Seiji Amemiya Siu, bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering. Since childhood, I've been taking part in the Nikkei ...

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Caitlin Anderson

Caitlin Anderson is graduating from Occidental College in May 2009 with a Geology major and a minor in Theater. She ...

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Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles is an Associate Professor of Japanese and translation studies whose translations of leading contemporary Japanese poets have earned ...

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Guy Aoki

Guy Aoki is the Founding President of Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), the only organization solely dedicated to ...

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Danielle Arikawa

Danielle Arikawa is 3rd generation Japanese American. She was born in South Carolina to a half-Japanese mother and an American ...

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Ben Arikawa

Ben Arikawa is a Northern California Sansei. He lives not far from where his paternal grandparents settled to work on ...

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Gil Asakawa

Gil Asakawa writes about pop culture and politics from a Asian American and Japanese American perspective on his blog, www ...

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Tim Asamen

Tim Asamen is the coordinator of the Japanese American Gallery, a permanent exhibit in the Imperial Valley Pioneers Museum. His ...

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Asian American Press

Asian American Press is a weekly newspaper providing quality news and information to promote diversity and unity among Asians, the ...

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Asociación Peruano Japonesa

The Japanese Peruvian Association (Asociación Peruano Japonesa, APJ) is a nonprofit organization that brings together and represents Japanese citizens ...

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Tammy Ayer

Tammy Ayer lives in Yakima, Wash. and is features/reader engagement editor at the Yakima Herald-Republic. She has held various ...

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Eiichiro Azuma

Eiichiro Azuma is the Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at University of ...

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Margaret Bacon

Margaret Bacon is a writer of Okinawan and Anglo descent. Being only half Okinawan, she may not live to 100 ...

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Lütfiye Bagci

Lütfiye Bagci was born in 1988 in Germany. She is a third generation descendant of a Turkish family living ...

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Jeridel Banks

After graduating from San Diego State University, Jeridel Banks went to Japan as an English teacher, manga podcaster, magical realism ...

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Aline Barros

Aline Barros is an immigration reporter for Voice of America’s (VOA) News Center in Washington, D.C. Originally from ...

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“Vicky” Yuriko Barrow

“Vicky” Yuriko Barrow (nee Obayashi) was born and raised in Vancouver before the evacuation of Japanese Canadians off the west ...

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Ronald J. Beckwith

Ronald Beckwith has been an archeologist with the National Park Service since 1989. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he received his ...

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June Aochi Berk

June Aochi Berk, former Executive Assistant to Irene Hirano-Inouye, first president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum (JANM ...

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Tamiko Beyer

Tamiko Beyer is the author of We Come Elemental (Alice James Books, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award and a ...

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Bettina-Jeannette Bierwirth

Bettina-Jeannette Bierwirth lives in Duisburg, Germany where she was born in 1987. In 2007 she started English and media design ...

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Francesca Yukari Biller

Francesca Biller is an award winning investigative journalist, political satirist, author, and social commentator for print, radio, and television. With ...

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Anna Bitong

Anna Bitong is a Los Angeles-based writer and reporter. She currently covers city government, crime, education, business, health and profiles ...

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Eric Bittner

Eric Bittner, a Certified Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)—Rocky Mountain Region in Denver, was raised ...

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Jackson Bliss

Jackson Bliss earned his MFA from the University of Notre Dame where he was the Fiction Fellow and the 2007 ...

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Robert Bonaparte

Robert Bonaparte, class of 2010, is an Asian Studies major with a Japanese emphasis at Occidental College in Los Angeles ...

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Nicholas Braun

Nicholas Braun is a Nikkei Sansei Ainoko from Chicago, IL. He is a Man of Little Means. Yet He longs ...

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Martha Bridegam

Martha Bridegam is a lawyer and freelance writer in San Francisco. For several years she was a part-time estate planning ...

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Chris K.T. Bright

Chris K.T. Bright is a B.F.A. Candidate at Chapman University with a Minor in Music. He is ...

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Tani Mitsui Brown

Tani Mitsui Brown is a Fulbright Fellow currently carrying out her Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Vietnam during the 2013-2014 ...

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Frank Buckley

Frank Buckley is co-anchor of KTLA's Emmy Award-winning signature broadcast, the KTLA Morning News. Buckley joined KTLA/CW in ...

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Kathleen Burkinshaw

Kathleen Burkinshaw is a Japanese American author residing in Charlotte, NC. She’s a wife, mom to a daughter in ...

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Nathaniel J. Campbell

Nathaniel J. Campbell lives and writes in Fairfield, Iowa, but he dreams of being able to spend more time in ...

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Rachelle Cano

Rachelle Cano is a native Californian who has lived in Los Angeles, New York City, Italy, and Switzerland. She has ...

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Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura is a visual artist and writer. A sansei born in Santa Rosa, CA. He now lives on the ...

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Alexandra Chang

Alexandra Chang is an arts writer and independent curator in New York City. Her book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual ...

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Krista Chavez

Krista Chavez is currently an English major at UCLA. She is involved with UCLA’s Asian Pacific Coalition, where she ...

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Yuriko Chavez

Yuriko Chavez was born and raised in Southern California. She is of Japanese and Mexican descent, and finished "Home is ...

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Carol Cheh

Carol Cheh is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Another Righteous Transfer!, a ...

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Susan Chen

Susan Chen is an Ethnic Studies Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include ...

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Jennifer Chen

Jennifer Chen is a student at Yale University and participated in an externship at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation ...

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Chris Cheng

Chris Cheng is of Japanese and Chinese decent, whose Japanese side hails from Cuba. Chris visited Cuba for one month ...

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Haruka Chiba

Haruka Chiba is a Nisei born in Toronto, ON only four months after her parents and older sister immigrated from ...

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Chicago Japanese American Historical Society

The Chicago Japanese American Historical Society is a grassroots organization founded in the early 1990s. Our mission is to preserve ...

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Kazumi Chin

Kazumi Chin is the author of Having a Coke With Godzilla. He works to build loving communities with marginalized people ...

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Elleanor Chin

Elleanor Chin is a lawyer, litigation consultant and writer. She writes about art, family and culture at www.ragecreationjoy.wordpress ...

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Lesley Chinen

Lesley Chinen is a freelance photojournalist and filmmaker who resides in Los Angeles, CA. She currently works for KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV ...

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Karleen C. Chinen

Karleen Chinen is the Editor of The Hawaii Herald, which covers Hawaii’s Japanese American community. She previously served as ...

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A’misa Chiu

A’misa Chiu is a Yonsei librarian and zinester who publishes under the label Eyeball Burp Press. She organizes community ...

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Raymond Chong

Raymond Chong was born in Chinatown in downtown Los Angeles. After graduating from the University of Southern California and earning ...

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Kandice Chuh

Kandice Chuh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, where she is also affiliated with the American ...

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Carolyn Sugiyama Classen

Carolyn Sugiyama Classen was born & raised on a sugar plantation on the Big Island of Hawaii, now lives with her ...

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Fredrick Cloyd

Fredrick Douglas Kakinami Cloyd was born in Japan shortly after the U.S. Occupation officially ended. His African-American/Cherokee father ...

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Diana Morita Cole

Diana Morita Cole is the author of Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit. which recounts her birth in the Minidoka concentration ...

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Ana María Díaz Collazos

Ana María Díaz Collazos is a linguist interested in the relationship between language and society. She studies the ...

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Linda Cooper

Linda Cooper is a communications consultant and freelance writer with more than 30 years of experience as a public relations ...

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Andressa Maciel Corrêa

Bacharel em Psicologia pela FAMATH (2015); cursando Filosofia (bacharel) pela UFF, com pesquisas que possuem como base a Psicologia Social ...

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Mikey Hirano Culross

Mikey Hirano Culross has been part of the Rafu Shimpo staff since 1998. In addition to covering sports, entertainment and ...

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Janelle Curtis

Janelle Curtis was born in Colorado and is currently an Occidental College student graduating in the class of 2011. Her ...

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Roger Daniels

Roger Daniels, Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus in the University of Cincinnati now lives in Bellevue, Washington. Beginning ...

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Takako Day

Takako Day, originally from Kobe, Japan, is an award-winning freelance writer and independent researcher who has published seven books and ...

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Alison De La Cruz

Alison M. De La Cruz is a multi-disciplinary theater artist, facilitator, producer, and cultural space maker living in Los Angeles ...

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Brian Komei Dempster

Brian Komei Dempster's debut book of poetry, Topaz, was published by Four Way Books in Fall 2013. Dempster is ...

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Denshō

Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project, located in Seattle WA, is Discover Nikkei Participating Organization since February 2004. Its mission ...

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Brian Deutsch

Brian Deutsch works at the University of Pittsburgh and is an occasional freelance writer. His articles on Korean culture and ...

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Grant Din

Grant Din is community relations director at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, where his work includes coordination and creation ...

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Mary Doi

Board Member of Chicago Japanese American Historical Society. Updated June 2005

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Justine Koo Drennan

Justine Koo Drennan is a New American Media Contributor. Updated August 2009

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Roy Ebihara

Roy Usaku Ebihara, O.D. was born in Clovis, New Mexico on January 11, 1934 in a family with ten ...

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Ben Ebihara

Ben Ebihara is a retiree at the age of 87. He was born in Clovis, New Mexico. He was interned ...

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Yuta Ebikawa

Yuta Ebikawa just completed his junior year at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The 20-year-old native of Redwood ...

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Alan Ehrgott

Alan Ehrgott is the Executive Director of the American River Conservancy, which has been preserving rivers and land for life ...

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Basima El Hasan

Basima El Hasan hails from Southern California and is a Communications Volunteer for the American Red Cross of Orange County ...

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Ellen Endo

Ellen Endo is a journalist whose professional experience includes a 20-year association with The Rafu Shimpo as well as senior ...

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John Esaki

John Esaki is the Director of the Japanese American National Museum’s Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center. His work ...

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Jamal Fahim

Jamal Fahim is a junior at Occidental College majoring in Sociology and minoring in Film and Media Studies. He is ...

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Nina Kahori Fallenbaum

Nina Kahori Fallenbaum is a mixed-generation Nikkei born and raised in Berkeley, California. A graduate of UC Berkeley and Meiji ...

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Elizabeth Farris

Elizabeth Farris started writing in 1999 after a first career as an Environmental Chemist. Her short stories have been published ...

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Don Fenton

Don Fenton received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and a MA in ...

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Andréia Ferreira

Andréia Ferreira has been a journalist since 1989. After working in the Brazilian press she was a reporter and ...

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Louis Fiset

Dr. Louis Fiset is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published two books ...

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Jamie Asaye FitzGerald

Jamie Asaye FitzGerald's poetry has appeared in Literary Mama, Media Cake, poeticdiversity, Snow Monkey, Speechless the Magazine, the anthologies ...

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Kelly Fleck

Kelly Fleck is the editor of the Nikkei Voice, a Japanese-Canadian national newspaper. A recent graduate of Carleton University's ...

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Sesshu Foster

Sesshu Foster has taught in East L.A. for 30 years. His work has been published in The Oxford Anthology ...

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Silvio Franceschinelli

Silvio Franceschinelli is in charge of the cultural activities of the Japanese association Ochacaffè, which works mainly in Italy, Switzerland ...

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Roy Fuentes

Roy Fuentes is the author of “Fresh Leaves, Pale Fruit,” a blog teaching the language and culture of Japan (Koiyuki ...

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Tracy Fugami

Tracey Fugami is the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Paine Art Center in Wisconsin. She profiled Fujiko Isomura ...

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Jenn Fujikawa

Jenn Fujikawa is a blogger and designer. On her website justjennrecipes.com her unique family dinners and geeky baking have ...

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Randall Fujimoto

Randall Fujimoto is the director of an educational nonprofit organization in Los Angeles and a member of the Sawtelle Japantown ...

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Laurel Fujisawa

Laurel Fujisawa is a third generation Japanese American living in Chicago and is a member of the Board of Directors ...

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Simone Momoye Fujita

Simone M. Fujita is a yonsei hapa of Japanese and African American heritage. A native Californian, she attended New York ...

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Yutaka Fujita

Yutaka Fujita was born in Tokyo, and studied design in the Chicago area. He continues to work in Chicago, with ...

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Masayuki Fukasawa

Born on November 22, 1965, in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. In 1992, he went to Brazil for the first time ...

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Stan Fukawa

Stan Fukawa was born in Mission, British Columbia, Canada in 1937. He taught at Malaspina University-College in Namaimo in Sociology ...

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Masako Fukawa

Masako Fukawa is a third generation Japanese Canadian living in Burnaby, BC. She has a lifelong commitment to education as ...

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Keiko Fukuda

Keiko Fukuda was born in Oita, Japan. After graduating from International Christian University, she worked for a publishing company. Fukuda ...

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Nobusuke Fukuda

Nobusuke Fukuda was born and raised in San Francisco. He was educated at the University of California, MSW degree, and ...

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Harry K. Fukuhara

Harry K. Fukuhara is a Military Intelligence Service Veteran who assigned to the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps. Updated ...

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Kip Fulbeck

Kip Fulbeck is an award-winning artist, slam poet and filmmaker. He is the author of Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; Part Asian ...

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Masaru Funai

Masaru Funai is one of the founders of the firm. Mr. Funai concentrates his practice on advising Japanese enterprises entering ...

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Tetsuo Furokawa

Tets Furukawa was the starting pitcher for the champion Gila River Eagles. A retired strawberry farmer, writer and historian, Tets ...

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Joey Tadashi Furutani

Born and raised in Gardena, California, Joey Tadashi Furutani was a product of the Los Angeles public school system but ...

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Luke Galati

Luke Galati is a Canadian journalism student based in Toronto. He writes for the Japanese Canadian newspaper, Nikkei Voice.Updated ...

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Javier García Wong-Kit

Journalist, with a degree in Communication Sciences, and instructor at San Martín de Porres University in Lima. He writes ...

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Dorothy Yumi Garcia

Dorothy Yumi Garcia, an artist, cultural worker, and educator, has taught and supervised in public and private schools and universities ...

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Sonny Gardner

H.B. “Sonny” Gardner began visiting Japan in 2004 and has been living in Osaka, Japan since 2009. Born in ...

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Jonathan Gartrelle

Jonathan Gartrelle is 21 years old, African American. He is a Junior majoring in Japanese and Chinese Language at Occidental ...

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Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon, a journalist for more than 30 years, has researched and written about Hawaii’s internment experience since college ...

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Asami Goto

Obtained her MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Shailder College of Business. Her field of research was municipal ...

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Donna Graves

Donna Graves, the director of Preserving California’s Japantown Project, is an historian and cultural planner based in Berkeley, California ...

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Margaret Ozaki Graves

Margaret Ozaki Graves is a Japanese American soprano performing in opera, musical theatre and concert work across the country. She ...

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John Endo Greenaway

John Endo Greenaway is a graphic designer based out of Port Moody, British Columbia. He is also the editor of ...

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Yurimi Grigsby

Yurimi Grigsby teaches at a private university in the Midwest. She received her PhD in ESL Education from the University ...

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Christiane Gross

Christiane Gross was born in Germany in 1984. She has been studying English and American studies and educational science at ...

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Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara

Rubén “Funkahuatl” Guevara is a native Angelino and over the past 50 years has worked as a musician, record ...

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Gerald A. Gustafson

Major Gustafson was born in Chicago and grew up in Stockton, IL. He participated in four 442nd battle campaigns and ...

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Kristine Haenschke

Kristine Haenschke is a Nisei, born and raised in Southern California, with two Kagoshima-born parents. She and her husband Eirik ...

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Eliot John Hagen

Eliot John Hagen graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in May 2013 with a degree in film. He landed an internship ...

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Camryn Hamaguchi

Camryn Hamaguchi was a two-sport star (basketball and track) at Kennedy High in La Palma. She was the team captain ...

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Susan Hamaker

Okinawan American Susan Hamaker is a New York-based writer who started the website JapanCulture•NYC in May 2011 as a ...

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Ben Hamamoto

Ben Hamamoto is a researcher at Institute for the Future, a non-profit think-tank that helps people and organizations think about ...

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Sean Hamamoto

As the 2013 Nikkei Community Intern, I will be working for the Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) and the Japanese ...

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Kristin Hanaoka

Kristin Hanaoka is a fourth generation Japanese American from the Chicago suburbs. She graduated from Illinois State University with a ...

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Arthur A. Hansen

Art Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he retired in ...

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Dean Hara

Dean Hara is Sales and Marketing Executive attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a B.S. and ...

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Rodger Hara

Rodger Hara is a Sansei and a 2nd generation Colorado native. He is on the Denver Mayor's Asian Pacific ...

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Kathy Harris

Kathy Harris (nee Kiyomi Tonogai) has been a student of Chado since the classes first started in Victoria in 2002 ...

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Yolantha Harrison-Pace

Yolantha Harrison-Pace is an award winning author, playwright, poet and a Performing Arts Specialist for the Kentucky Arts Council http ...

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Yumiko Hashimoto

Born in Kobe city of the Hyogo prefecture, she has lived in Los Angeles since 1997. Works as an editor ...

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Bobbie Hasselbring

RFT (Real Food Traveler) co-founder Bobbie Hasselbring has been a travel junkie her entire life. A writer and editor for ...

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Ike Hatchimonji

Ike Hatchimonji is a retired United States foreign service officer who has worked with the U.S. embassies in Vietnam ...

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Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey

Born in Los Angeles, incarcerated at Amache, educated in Boston and Utah, Lily currently lives in Salt Lake City with ...

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Hawaii Hochi

Hawaii Hochi is a Japanese and English newspaper that is sold in Hawaii, USA. Founded in 1912, it is published ...

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Kristen Hayashi

Kristen Hayashi is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of California, Riverside. After earning her B.A ...

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David M. Hays

David M. Hays is an archivist and Director of the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project at the ...

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April Naoko Heck

April Naoko Heck was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971, and moved to the United States seven years later. Her ...

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Jordan Helfand

Jordan Helfand is a 12th grade student at the Commonwealth School based in Boston, who is very interested in U ...

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Sergio Hernández Galindo

Sergio Hernández Galindo is a graduate of Colegio de México, where he majored in Japanese studies. He has ...

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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga is an iconic figure among students, scholars and Nikkei (Japanese American) activists. Along with 110,000 other Nikkei ...

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George Hewson

George Hewson is a teacher in the Education Department of the Royal Ontario Museum and specializes in the Japanese and ...

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Julia Hibarger

Julia Hibarger is a Japanese American who grew up far away from any Japanese American community in Minnesota. Julia's ...

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Richard Hicks

Richard H. Hicks is the Communications Writer at the Japanese American National Museum. Over the past decade, he has held ...

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Karin Higa

Karin Higa was a curator and specialist in Asian American art and was the Senior Curator of Art at the ...

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Enrique Higa Sakuda

Enrique Higa is a Peruvian Sansei (third generation, or grandchild of Japanese immigrants), journalist and Lima-based correspondent for the International ...

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Shigeharu Higashi

Born in 1954, in Kure, Hiroshima. In 1981, Higashi moved to the U.S. and worked as a reporter for ...

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Kelvin Higo

Kelvin Higo was born in 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His Nisei parents met while their families were in Alberta, after ...

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Katsuo Higuchi

A Nisei native of Tupã, São Paulo State, he holds a Law degree, specializing in Labor Relations. Over the ...

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Alba Shioco Hino

A native of Paraná, with a History degree from the State University at Londrina (UEL) and an Education degree from ...

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James A. Hirabayashi

James Aikira Hirabayashi (1926-2012) had a distinguished thirty-year academic career at San Francisco State University which included the position of ...

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Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi taught Asian American and Ethnic Studies for more than 35 years before he retired in 2017. He ...

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Naomi Hirahara

Hirahara is the author of the Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai mystery series, which features a Kibei Nisei gardener and atomic-bomb ...

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Kunisuke Hirano

Kunisuke Hirano is a member of the Association for Immigration Studies, and a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology at The ...

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Jayne Hirata

I am a happily retired attorney who spends her time running errands for her three cute but demanding kids, cooking ...

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David Hirata

David Hirata is a magician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. His magic storytelling show, The Jap Box ...

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Luis Hirata Mishima

Luis Hirata Mishima was born in Lima, Peru, on January 19, 1939. He attended the private elementary school, Santa Beatriz-Jishuryo ...

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Roberto Hirose

Born in Chile on August 8, 1950, Roberto Hirose was educated in the local schools but also received Japanese influence ...

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Maia Hito

Maia Hito is a high school student who has been in love with Japanese culture since she was young. She ...

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Arnold T. Hiura

Arnold Hiura is the executive director of the Hawaii Japanese Center in Hilo and a former Hawai‘i Herald editor ...

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Connie K. Ho

Connie K. Ho is a Freelance Writer for online publications. Her work has appeared in media outlets such as AOL ...

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Bettina Hofmann

Bettina Hofmann teaches American Studies at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She is particularly interested in ethnic literatures and war ...

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Ricardo G. Hokama

Ricardo G. Hokama is a Nikkei born in Buenos Aires in 1968. He majored in journalism at the Argentine Catholic ...

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Sergio Holguin

Sergio Holguin is a first year Computer Science Student at Cal Poly Pomona. He has been a volunteer docent at ...

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Harry K. Honda

Harry Honda was a native Angeleño, born in 1919, and graduated from Maryknoll School in 1932. Harry's long ...

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Laura Honda-Hasegawa

Laura Honda-Hasegawa was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1947. She worked in the education field until 2009. Since then ...

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Jenny Nakao Hones

Jenny Nakao Hones is a sansei Japanese American, born in Honolulu and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Three Frogs Design is ...

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Ashley Honma

In her fourth year at the University of California, Los Angeles, Ashley Honma is a Japanese major, and serves as ...

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Chris Hope

Chris Hope is a Toronto-based lawyer, writer, and director of Hatsumi – One Grandmother’s Journey Through the Japanese Canadian Internment ...

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Jay Horinouchi

Duality is a theme that Jay constantly explores with his art. Being a bilingual Japanese American, there is a duality ...

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Kotaro Horisaka

Kotaro Horisaka is a Professor at Sophia University in Tokyo where he is part of the Foreign Studies department faculty ...

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Edna Horiuchi

Edna Horiuchi is a third grade teacher. She enjoys traveling and is trying to learn Japanese. Her son, Kenzo, is ...

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Ken House

Ken House, a Senior Archivist with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) at Seattle, grew up on Whidbey Island ...

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Velina Hasu Houston

VELINA HASU HOUSTON has written over thirty plays, including sixteen commissions, in a career that began at New York’s ...

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Ren Hsieh

Ren Hsieh is writer and editor for Dat Winning, a blog covering sports from an Asian/American perspective. He is ...

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Funie Hsu

Funie Hsu, PhD, works as an assistant professor of American Studies at San Jose State University.Updated July 2018

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Sigrid Hudson

Sigrid Hudson is a children’s librarian at a public library in the Los Angeles area. She is also an ...

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Jessica Huey

Jessica Huey works as a Senior Consultant at FMA, a firm that supports nonprofit organizations to strengthen their fiscal management ...

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Noriko Huntsinger

Noriko Huntsinger is a freelance editor/writer/translator with over 18 years experience. She writes regularly for Japanese magazines and ...

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Sora Hwang

Sora Hwang is the managing editor at Mochi and in her third year at Northeastern University as a journalism major ...

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Norm Masaji Ibuki

Writer Norm Masaji Ibuki lives in Oakville, Ontario. He has written extensively about the Canadian Nikkei community since the early ...

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Satoru Ichikawa

Satoru Ichikawa was born in November 1929 to a Buddhist minister and his wife in Fresno, California, the eldest of ...

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Judith Ichisaka

Judith Ichisaka is a fourth-generation Japanese American who has lived in the U.S, Japan, and Canada. Her father’s ...

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Yamato Icochea Oshima

Yamato Icochea Oshima is the editor of the magazine Kaikan, published by the Press Department of the Japanese Peruvian Association ...

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Sharon Ideguchi

Sharon Ideguchi is a sophomore majoring in business and Japanese language at Seattle University. Her father is a third-generation Nikkei ...

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Kate Iio

Kate Iio was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Her father was born in Japan, her mother was born ...

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Janet Ikeda

Janet Ikeda is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Washington and Lee University in ...

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Tom Ikeda

Tom Ikeda is Founding Executive Director of Densho and has conducted more than 200 video-recorded oral history interviews with Japanese ...

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Kurt Yokoyama-Ikeda

Kurt Yokoyama-Ikeda is an educator by profession, poet by passion. Hawaii-born, Torrance raised, this Shin-Nikkei serves the Greater LA community ...

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Santos Ikeda Yoshikawa

Santos Ikeda Yoshikawais, a second generation Nikkei, graduated from the National University of San Antonio Abad in Cuzco. He did ...

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Jean Ikezoe-Halevi

Jean Ikezoe-Halevi is a Chicago area journalist. She was the first Japanese American to be a reporter, producer and anchor ...

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Akira Imai

Akira Imai is a writer in Vancouver, BC. She works to help advocate for the Japanese Canadian community as well ...

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Rio Imamura

Rio Imamura, a U.S. citizen for close to 30 years living in New York City and Southern California, returned ...

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Richard Imamura

Richard Imamura is a longtime editor/journalist and a writer in the entertainment industry. Starting with local newspapers (South Bay ...

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Akemi Figueredo Imamura

Akemi Figueredo Imamura is a third-generation descendant of the Japanese community in Cuba. She is currently the editor of the ...

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Yaeko Inaba

After graduating from Seijo University in Tokyo, she moved to Seattle, WA to study English. From March 2002 to July ...

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Sharon Inahara

Sharon Inahara, a Sansei, was born in Portland, Oregon, and attended the Claremont Colleges in southern California. With a degree ...

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Justin Inahara

Justin is a Hapa from the Portland area, now living in Seattle whom is a lover of all things stylish ...

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Kyoko Inoue

Kyoko Inoue is a Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research interests in the past twenty ...

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Herbert Hideyo Inouye

Herbert Hideyo Inouye was born on November 14, 1928 in La Jara, Colorado. In 1939, due to his mother’s ...

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Daniel H. Inouyé

Daniel H. Inouyé is an advanced Ph.D. candidate in history at New York University. He holds a M.A ...

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Lloyd Inui

Lloyd Inui is currently enjoying retirement as retired professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long ...

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Elizabeth Ishida

Elizabeth Ishida was an NCI Program intern at the Japanese American National Museum from June 24 to August 15, 2007 ...

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Chris Ishida

Chris Ishida is a 19-year-old freshman enrolled at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. Currently, he is on medical leave due ...

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Traci Ishigo

traci ishigo is a creative community organizer and trauma-informed yoga + meditation healing practitioner, informed by the personal, the Japanese American ...

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Troy Ishikawa

Troy Ishikawa is an Interculturalist whose process training and consulting practice specializes in problem solving cultural differences in behaviors, norms ...

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Gwen Battad Ishikawa

Gwen Battad Ishikawa is the Managing Editor of The Hawai‘i Herald, a semimonthly publication that covers Hawai‘is Japanese ...

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Chanda Ishisaka

Chanda Ishisaka was born and raised in Monterey Park, California located in Los Angeles County. She is a mixed race ...

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Karen Ishizuka

Karen L. Ishizuka is the author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Sixties (2015), Lost and Found ...

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James Iso

James Iso was born and raised in San Jose, California. He graduated from San Jose State University.During World War ...

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Erica Isomura

Erica Isomura is a yonsei Japanese Canadian and Chinese Canadian writer and community organizer based in Vancouver, BC – unceded Coast ...

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Roy T. Ito

Roy "Leroy" Ito was born on September 1, 1929 in Los Angeles, California. In April 1942 he and his family ...

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Hiromi Itō

Hiromi Itō is one of the most important poets of contemporary Japan. In the 1980s, she wrote a series of ...

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Susan Ito

Susan Ito co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). Her ...

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Fran Ito

Fran Ito is a third generation Chinese American from the Island of Oahu. Graduated from McKinley High School. She majored ...

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Yumi Iwama

Yumi has been a stage, film, and TV actress for many years and has recently branched into voice overs for ...

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Laurie Iwami

Laurie Iwami is a Sansei who grew up on O’ahu, Hawai’i, attended college in New England, and now ...

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Fumika Iwasaki

Fumika Iwasaki was born in Tochigi, Japan. After finishing junior year at Tsuda College, she came to Seattle, and attended ...

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Edward Iwata

Edward Iwata is an independent journalist, blogger, and author of The Billionaire's Gift: A Spiritual Business Parable and Fusion ...

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Miya Iwataki

Miya Iwataki’s life experiences as a poet, writer, host/producer of East Wind Radio series; designer of diversity and ...

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Masumi Izumi

Masumi Izumi, Ph.D. (American Studies), is Associate Professor at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Masumi's main research interest is ...

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Japanese American National Museum

Japanese American National Museum, located in Los Angeles, California, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to sharing ...

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JASC of Chicago

The Japanese American Service Committe of Chicago was founded to assist in the resettlement of 20,000 newly-arrived Japanese Americans ...

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Angelica Jardini

Angelica Jardini was born and raised in Los Angeles, and is a Junior at Occidental College, where she is majoring ...

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Hillary Jenks

Hillary Jenks is currently assistant professor in the University Honors Program at Portland State University. She did her dissertation on ...

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Gwenn M. Jensen

Dr. Gwenn Jensen is a consulting medical anthropologist and oral historian and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the ...

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Hayley Johnson

Hayley Johnson is the Head of Government Documents at Louisiana State University. Hayley has worked with government documents for the ...

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George Toshio Johnston

George Toshio Johnston is the former director of business development at The Rafu Shimpo, where he also has written a ...

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Keiko K.

Keiko was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan and raised on the East Coast of the US. She identifies as Sansei ...

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Nancy Kaffer

Nancy Kaffer is an award-winning columnist and member of the editorial board at the Detroit Free Press. Kaffer has been ...

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Yuri Kageyama

Yuri Kageyama is a poet and writer of bilingual and bicultural upbringing, born in Japan and growing up in Maryland ...

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Ken Kaji

Ken Kaji is on both the Nikkei Heritage editorial board and a board member for National Japanese American Historical Society ...

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Troy Tashiro Kaji

Troy Kaji, M.D. earned his medical degree from University of California, Davis in 1986. While at Davis, Troy began ...

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Lloyd Kajikawa

Lloyd Kajikawa is retired and spends his time between Los Angeles and Kauai. He is an educator and formerly worked ...

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Sherri Kajiwara

Sherri Kajiwara is the Acting Executive Director of the National Nikkei Museum & Heritage Centre in Burnaby, Canada. She is a ...

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Sebastián Kakazu

Sebastián Kakazu is a third generation Nikkei born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a Certified Professional Coach and ...

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Will Kaku

Will Kaku is a board member of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and is the vice-chair of the ...

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Eri Kameyama

Eri Kameyama recently graduated from the Asian American Studies Master’s Program at UCLA where she completed her thesis titled ...

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Carolyn Kamii

Carolyn Kamii is a fourth generation Japanese American living in Los Angeles and owner of a lifestyles public relations firm ...

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Frank Kamiya

Frank Kamiya became involved in the Japanese Canadian community in the early 1980s, when his children were entering their teens ...

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Vanessa Kanamoto

Vanessa Kanamoto is a dancer and choreographer that resides in Los Angeles, CA. She received a B.A. in Dance ...

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Minoru Kanda

Currently resides in Nara prefecture. His great-grandfather was an Issei who migrated to Hawaii in 1900. His grandmother was Nisei ...

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Teiko Kaneko

Teiko Kaneko was born in Ishikawamachi, Fukushima Pref., Japan. She married in 1973 and immigrated to New Brunswick, Canada, with ...

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Tomomi Kanemaru

Kanemaru was born in 1969 in Yamanashi Prefecture. She moved to the U.S. in 1991. In 2000, she graduated ...

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Sachi Kaneshiro

Sachi Kaneshiro was born Sachi Tamaki in Covina, a city in Los Angeles County in California. She attended UCLA where ...

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Mary Uematsu Kao

Mary Uyematsu Kao has worked at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Asian American Studies Center since 1987. She ...

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Alexander Kaplan-Reyes

Alexander Kaplan-Reyes is a sophomore at Occidental College majoring in Asian Studies with a Japan emphasis and minoring in Politics ...

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Nathan Kenji Kasai

Nathan Kenji Kasai is a Japanese American foreign exchange student at Ristumeikan University in Kyoto. He will be staying in ...

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Soji Kashiwagi

Soji Kashiwagi has written numerous plays, articles, columns and essays on the Japanese American experience, many of which have focused ...

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Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Born in Sacramento in 1922, writer and actor Hiroshi Kashiwagi spent his early years in Loomis, California. He was incarcerated ...

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John Katagi

John Katagi is a former staff member of the Japanese American National Museum. He shares memories from almost two decades ...

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Masaru Kato

Masaru Kato is an energy healer and a spiritual teacher, offering transformational workshops throughout the year. You can reach him ...

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Ayako Kato

Called “compelling to behold” by Jack Anderson of the New York Times, Ayako Kato is a dancer and choreographer who ...

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Amy E. Kato

Amy E Kato met her husband, John Esaki, in Little Tokyo while working at Visual Communications on the filming of ...

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Sakura Kato

Sakura Kato is the 2014 Nikkei Community Intern for the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) and the Japanese American Bar ...

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Hiroshi Kato

Hiroshi Kato was born and raised in Wailuku, Maui. He is a retired Dean of Windward Community College, University of ...

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Traci Kato-Kiriyama

traci kato-kiriyama is a performer, actor, writer, author, educator, and art+community organizer who splits the time and space in ...

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Barbara Kawakami

Barbara Kawakami was born in 1921 in Okkogamura, Kumamoto, Japan, in a feudal farmhouse that had been her family’s ...

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Ryan Kawamoto

Ryan Kawamoto has been with Kinetic Productions based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i for over 11-plus years where he has established ...

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Lili Kawamura

Lili Kawamura has a doctorate in Sociology (University of São Paulo), Free-Docent in Education (UNICAMP – State University at Campinas ...

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Jessica Kawamura

Jessica Kawamura is a student at Brown University in Rhode Island. She is studying conversational Japanese, African American history and ...

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Yukio Kawaratani

Yukio Kawaratani is a retired urban planner, who worked on the redevelopment of Downtown Los Angeles from 1962 to 1993 ...

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Yoshimi Kawashima

Yoshimi Kawashima is currently a sophomore at University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in East Asian Studies, with a concentration ...

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Peter Kelley

Peter Kelley is a former daily newspaper reporter, editor and columnist. In 2004 he joined the University of Washington News ...

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Susan Kellogg

Susan Michie Kellogg is a third generation Japanese American/Hawaiian hapa currently living back in Los Angeles after residing in ...

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Aiko Kenmochi

Aiko Kenmochi (née Takahashi) was born in 1978 in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica, in Central America ...

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George Kitahara Kich

George Kitahara Kich, Ph.D., was until recently a professor of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He ...

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Akio Kigoshi

Akio Kigoshi was born in Kobe, Japan in 1927. Between the ages of six and 14, Akio's father was ...

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Jessica Kikuchi

Jessica Kikuchi is a Program Associate at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles, California. Updated May 2007

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Akemi Kikumura Yano

Akemi Kikumura Yano is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center. She ...

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Dan Killoren

Dan Killoren is a Ph.D. history student at Arizona State University. Updated May 30, 2008

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Sojin Kim

Sojin Kim is curator and special assistant to the director at the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage ...

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ChangHwan Kim

Professor Kim is the Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. His work appears, among others, in American ...

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Michelle Har Kim

Michelle Har Kim received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. Her dissertation, "Antipodes of Asian ...

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Melissa Kim

Melissa Kim grew up with a passion for writing, television, and adventure. Her first experience with the theater was in ...

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Greg Kimura

Greg Kimura lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Sierra ...

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Naomi Kimura

Born in Tokyo. Discovers Portuguese upon accompanying her husband for his job assignment in Brazil. Attended language school to learn ...

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Laura Kina

Laura Kina is Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design at DePaul University, co-editor of War Baby/Love Child ...

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Rebecca Chiyoko King

Rebecca Chiyoko King, Ph.D., is assistant professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco. Updated Fall 1998

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Hiroyuki Kinjo

Hiroyuki Kinjo was born in Okinawa. He is a graduate of the University of Philippines. Currently, he is Associate Professor ...

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George Kiriyama

George Kiriyama was a longtime LAUSD educator. He served on the LA School Board in 1995. He founded the Japanese ...

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Iku Kiriyama

Retired LAUSD educator. Community volunteer. Iku does various presentations and programs. (Photo courtesy of Densho)Updated January 2015

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Stanley Kirk

Stan Kirk grew up in rural Alberta and graduated from the University of Calgary. He now lives in Ashiya City ...

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Candace Kita

Candace Kita is an arts and cultural worker weaving multidisciplinary art practice, social justice organizing, and nonprofit administration. Currently, Candace ...

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Keiko Mary Kitagawa

Keiko Mary Kitagawa was born in 1934 on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Attended the University of Toronto, Trinity College ...

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Satomi Takano Kitahara

Currently is an associate professor for the department of literature at Rio de Janeiro State University. She is also the ...

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Pat Kitano

Pat Kitano is the founder of the Domus Consulting Group , a consultancy that works with enterprises and associations to develop ...

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Christine Kitano

Christine Kitano is the author of two collections of poetry, Sky Country (BOA Editions, 2017), and Birds of Paradise (Lynx ...

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Yosuke Kitazawa

Yosuke Kitazawa is Site Editor of KCET Departures, an online transmedia documentary that explore the social and cultural history of ...

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Brian Kito

Brian Kito is the third generation owner of the Fugetsu-do family business. Preserving his cultural heritage through the preservation of ...

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Lila Klopfenstein

Lila is a recent graduate from the College of Idaho, living and working in Nagasaki Japan. She loves running, hiking ...

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Yoko Joy Kobayashi

Yoko Kobayashi was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. She is currently teaching English in Kashiwa, Japan, through ...

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Kim (Oikawa) Kobrle

Kim (Oikawa) Kobrle was born in 1927 in Murrayville, BC, and moved to East Richmond at age three, the region ...

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Maya Kochiyama

Maya Kochiyama is a yonsei/gosei Japanese American from Torrance, CA. She is currently entering her third year at UC ...

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Mayumi Kodani

Mayumi Kodani currently lives in Los Angeles where she works alternately as a writer and shopkeeper. She will begin an ...

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Bjoern Koeller

Bjoern Koeller lives in Wuppertal and is studying English and American Studies, Protestant Theology and Singing at the University of ...

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Joy Kogawa

Joy Kogawa was born in Vancouver in 1935 to Japanese-Canadian parents. During World War II, Joy and her family were ...

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Mónica Kogiso

Mónica Kosigo is an Argentine Nisei. She received a scholarship from the University of Foreign Languages in Osaka, Japan ...

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Sydnie Kohara

World-traveled journalist Sydnie Kohara anchors the CBS 5 Eyewitness News Early Edition and makes her home in the San Francisco ...

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Michael Takeo Koike

Michael Takeo Koike grew up in Winter Haven, Florida. He completed his Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Princeton University ...

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Shigeru Kojima

Shigeru Kojima was born and raised in Sanjo City, Niigata. He graduated from the Sophia University and received a Master ...

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Chris Komai

Chris Komai is a freelance writer and a community relations specialist, who has been involved in Little Tokyo for four ...

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Dale Komai

Dale Komai is an online marketer and documentary filmmaker who lives in Mill Valley, California. His diverse background includes 20 ...

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Komo

Komo is a Hapa Shin-Nisei living in San Mateo, CA. She was raised in Hawaii and studied at both the ...

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Christine Kondo

Christine Kondo is a hapa and yonsei (fourth-generation) Japanese Canadian living with her family near Vancouver.Updated January 2014

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Juliet S. Kono

Juliet S. Kono has written two books of poetry, a short story collection, and several children’s books. She has ...

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Akio Konoshima

Born in Tokyo on Jan. 5, 1924, Akio Konoshima arrived in the United States on June 23 of that year ...

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George M. Koshi

George M. Koshi is a Millitary Intergent Service veteran who helped defend prisoners in the War Crimes Trials, and later ...

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Victoria Kraus

Victoria Kraus is a former Web Editor for DiscoverNikkei.org. She is a half Japanese half Caucasian currently residing in ...

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Sarena Kuhn

Serena Kuhn attends Los Alamitos High School. She enjoys learning, writing, and going on adventures. With a Japanese American mother ...

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Jenni “Emiko” Kuida

Jenni “Emiko” Kuida co-authored the original “101 Ways to Tell if You Are Japanese American” with Tony Osumi. She is ...

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Maiya Kuida-Osumi

Maiya Kuida-Osumi is a middle school student. She has been playing basketball with the Venice Sparks since kindergarten. She also ...

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Shingi Kuniyoshi

Shingi Kuniyoshi was born in Naha, Okinawa. He came to the US as a graduate student of geology at UCLA ...

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Noriko Eileen Kurahashi

Eileen Kurahashi lives in Northern California with her family. She is active in Sogetsu ikebana, the Mills College choir, and ...

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Moet Kurakata

Moet Kurakata is a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is the Community Activities and ...

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Misui Patrizia Kurita Oyamada

Misui Patrizia Kurita Oyamada is a Paraguayan and a third generation of Japanese descent. Born and raised in Asunción ...

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Yosh Kuromiya

Yosh Kuromiya was born in Sierra Madre, California, in 1923. He was attending Pasadena Junior College when WWII broke out ...

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Kentaro Kuwatsuka

Kentaro Kuwatsuka is an Associate Professor of Human Geography, Center for Migration Studies, University of the Ryukyus. He is interested ...

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Mari L'Esperance

Mari L’Esperance was born in Kobe, Japan to a Japanese mother and a French Canadian-New Englander father and raised ...

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Janice Marion Wright LaMoree

Janice Marion Wright LaMoree is the daughter of J. Marion Wright. For fifty-seven years, 1913-1970, her father was attorney and ...

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Lawrence Lan

As part of the Nikkei Community Internship program, Lawrence will be contributing this summer to the Discover Nikkei website in ...

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Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is the architecture critic for Curbed. Her essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in Architect, Domus, Dwell, Medium ...

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Matthieu Langlois

Matthieu Langlois is a graduate student in History at University of Quebec in Montreal. He is interested by the history ...

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Alexander LaRose

Alexander LaRose is a sophomore Economics major at Occidental College, who is also pursuing a minor in Asian Studies. Last ...

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Travis Lau

Travis Lau graduated from a charter high school in Marietta, GA and is now pursuing an English major at UCLA ...

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Tom LaVenture

Thomas J. LaVenture is the Managing Editor of the Asian American Press, pan-Asian, English language weekly publication based in St ...

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Karen J. Leong

Karen J. Leong is an associate professor of Women and Gender Studies and director of Asian Pacific American Studies at ...

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Andrew Way Leong

Andrew Way Leong is a College Fellow in the Department of English at Northwestern University. He is the translator of ...

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Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine

Sharleen Naomi Nakamoto Levine lives in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, with her husband and two daughters. She is an instructor in ...

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Carly Lindley

A native of Long Beach, California, Carly Lindley earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Systems from the University ...

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Little Tokyo Historical Society

The Little Tokyo Historical Society (LTHS) was formed in 2006 by members of the Little Tokyo community to commemorate the ...

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Ling Woo Liu

Ling Woo Liu is the first director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education. Prior to ...

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Kenji C. Liu

Kenji C. Liu (劉謙司) is author of Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize ...

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Natalie Ume Liverant

Natalie Ume Liverant, a third generation Japanese American, received her bachelors of arts degree in Anthropology from the University of ...

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Hondo Lobley

Hondo Lobley grew up in Northern California, currently lives in the East Bay and practices in the Jodo Shinshu tradition ...

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Cherstin M. Lyon

Cherstin M. Lyon is associate professor of history and coordinator of the Public and Oral History Program at California State ...

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Latifa Maazouz

Latifa Maazouz was born in Germany, in 1987. She studies English and Romance languages and literature at the University of ...

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Alec Yoshio MacDonald

Formerly of Chicago, Alec Yoshio MacDonald is a writer and editor living in Oakland, California. His work has appeared in ...

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Martin Macias Jr.

Martin Macias Jr. is a Los Angeles-based reporter for Courthouse News Service. He covers federal court, state politics, city and ...

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John Mackie

John Mackie is a writer with the Vancouver Sun newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He specializes in cultural and ...

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Thomas Hiroshi Madokoro

Thomas Madokoro was born June 27, 1920 in Steveston, B.C. He spent his childhood in Steveston, Vancouver and Tofino ...

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Oscar Madrigal

A one-time student of the Watts Towers Arts Center, Oscar has spent a career working in the nonprofit sector, being ...

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Tatiana Maebuchi

Born in São Paulo, Tatiana Maebuchi is a third generation Japanese Brazilian on her mother’s side, and fourth ...

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Daryl J. Maeda

Dr. Daryl J. Maeda is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has taught ...

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Wayne Maeda

Wayne Maeda is the Project Director for the Sacramento Regional Japanese American 1992 Exhibit and published for the opening of ...

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Shinichi Maehara

Shinichi Maehara is a retired executive director of Okinawa Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (OTV). He received an honorary doctorate of ...

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Nao Magami

Nao Magami majored in advertising and marketing at California State University, San Jose. He worked in the advertising industry in ...

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Yoshimi Susan Maikawa

Yoshimi Susan Maikawa (nee: Yoshimi Suyama) was born in Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada (1931). Due to the War Measures Act ...

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Frank Maikawa

Fumio Frank Maikawa was born in Vancouver, in the province of British Columbia, Canada near the end of the Great ...

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Mitchell T. Maki

Mitchell T. Maki is president and CEO of Go For Broke National Education Center. He is the lead author of ...

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Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Isako Isako (forthcoming 2019), winner of the 2017 Alice James Award. She received ...

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Jessica Man

Jessica Man worked on the Clayworks project with the Little Tokyo Historical Society as a Dr. Sanbo and Kazuko Sakaguchi ...

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Sakae Manning

Sakae Manning has published poetry in anthologies including Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American Women ...

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Manzanar Committee

The Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969 and the more recent Manzanar At Dusk ...

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Marta Marenco

Marta Marenco was born the youngest of eight children in 1945 to Tatsuzo and Esther Tomihisa. Her father died when ...

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Mary Maruyama

Mary Maruyama is a foreign affairs student at the Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco. She is also a contributor to Associa ...

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D Hideo Maruyama

D Hideo Maruyama obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from Long Beach State. He was a part of Aisarema, the ...

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Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka

Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka was born and raised in multicultural Boyle Heights. The Vietnam War and Asian American Studies at UC ...

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Marie Masumoto

Marie Masumoto is an independent researcher of Japanese American history and volunteers for the Hirasaki National Resource Center in the ...

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David Mas Masumoto

David Mas Masumoto is the owner of Masumoto Family Farms, an organic farm in Fresno, California, and the author of ...

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Earnest Yutaka Masumoto

Earnest Yutaka Masumoto was born in May 1943 in the Topaz Internment Camp. After the War ended and the family ...

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Sachiko Masuoka

Sachiko Masuoka was born in Hiroshima. She survived the atomic blast. In 1962, she came to the US through an ...

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Gann Matsuda

Gann Matsuda serves as blog editor, handles public relations and is the coordinator of the Manzanar At Dusk program for ...

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Lawrence Matsuda

Lawrence Matsuda was born in the Minidoka, Idaho, concentration camp during World War II. He received a PhD in education ...

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riKu Matsuda

riKu Matsuda is a mixed Nikkei queer trans man born in Garden Grove and raised in the Antelope Valley. In ...

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Alberto J. Matsumoto

Nisei Japanese-Argentine. In 1990, he came to Japan as a government-financed international student. He received a Master’s degree in ...

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Nancy Matsumoto

Nancy Matsumoto is a freelance writer and editor specializing in the areas of sustainable agriculture, food, arts, culture and health ...

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Lauren Matsumoto

Lauren Matsumoto is in her third year at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she is the past ...

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Valerie Matsumoto

Valerie J. Matsumoto is a professor in the Department of History and the Department of Asian American Studies at the ...

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Tomiko Matsumoto

Tomiko Matsumoto was was born on August 30, 1900 in Nakano, Chiba Prefecture and immigrated to Seattle in the early ...

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Gennosuke Matsumoto

Gennosuke Matsumoto was born on August 1, 1889 in Fusa, Chiba Prefecture, now part of the town of Abiko. As ...

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Erik Matsunaga

Erik Matsunaga is a Chicago-born fourth generation Nikkei American of Japanese and German descent. In addition to regular contributions to ...

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Kira Matsuno

Kira Matsuno is an undergrad business major at the University of California Riverside. She is a part of the Nikkei ...

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Karen Yoshiko Matsuoka

Karen Yoshiko Matsuoka is the proud daughter of a Kibei-Sansei mother and Issei father. Her grandfather was the lead defendant ...

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Alyctra Matsushita

My name is Alyctra Matsushita. I'm going to be a fourth year at the University of California, Santa Barbara ...

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Daniel M. Mayeda

Daniel M. Mayeda is an entertainment/media industry litigator in Los Angeles. He has written and spoken extensively on media ...

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Meher McArthur

Originally from the UK, Meher McArthur is a freelance Asian art historian, author and educator based in Los Angeles. Her ...

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Lane McGarrity

Lane McGarrity was raised in Terrace, British Columbia, but currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. He spends most of his ...

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James McIlwain

James McIlwain, MD, is a Professor Emeritus at Brown University, and a member of the Japanese American Veterans Association.Updated ...

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Matthew McRae

Matthew is a Communications Advisor at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has worked at the ...

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Kimiko Medlock

Kimiko Medlock is currently an MA student in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, specializing in the history ...

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Ayako Mie

Ayako Mie is originally from Tokyo, Japan, where she worked as a television reporter for one of the networks. One ...

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Sam Mihara

Sam Mihara is a former internee at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming, camp. He was born and raised in San Francisco ...

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Ava Mikolavich

Ava Mikolavich is currently studying Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College. After Ava graduate in the spring of 2010 ...

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Henrique Minatogawa

Henrique Minatogawa is a freelance journalist and photographer, Brazilian third generation Japanese descendant. His family origins are Okinawa, Nagasaki and ...

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Norman Y. Mineta

The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta has had a career in public service that has been both distinguished and unique. For ...

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David Minguez

David Minguez was born and raised in Los Angeles County, and is a junior at Occidental College majoring in Asian ...

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Maxime Minne

Maxime Minne is a Graduate Student in History at the University of Quebec in Montreal. He is working on the ...

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Laura Misumi

Laura Misumi (“she”/“her”/“hers”) is a Workers’ Rights staff attorney at the Community Development Project (CDP) of the Urban ...

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Ed Mitoma

Ed Mitoma is the editor of the South Bay Chapter, JACL newsletter issued quarterly to South Bay Chapter members. He ...

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Sean Miura

Sean Miura is a Los Angeles-based Yonsei writer and artist. He is the producer/curator of Little Tokyo’s Tuesday ...

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Kazuo Miyagi

A former chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Okinawa Sumo in Bolivia, Miyagi emigrated to the Bolivia-Okinawa migration ...

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Lauren Miyamoto

Lauren Miyamoto is a recent graduate of New York University majoring in Anthropology, with a double minor in Asian/Pacific ...

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Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto is Artistic Director of Great Leap, a community-based arts organization that has been producing music, theater and dance ...

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Gaye Miyasaki

Gaye Miyasaki is a contributing writer. She resides in Hawaii and is a member of the NJAHS Board of Directors ...

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Margaret Miyauchi-Leong

Margaret Miyauchi-Leong is a Shin Nisei born and raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area. She has been active in ...

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Richard Miyazato

Richard Miyazato, MHA, is the Director and Founder of Carelife, a Japanese American Home Care Company that provides caregivers for ...

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Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born in Carmel, California to a Japanese mother and an American father. She graduated from Columbia ...

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Mia Nakaji Monnier

Mia Nakaji Monnier is a Los Angeles-based writer and editor. She was born in California to a Japanese mother and ...

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Guilberto Moran

Guilberto Moran was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He is a junior at Occidental College and is ...

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Edward Moreno

At 94, Ed Moreno has accumulated nearly seventy years of service in media- broadcast, newsprint, and magazines. Ed has received ...

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Jack Shiro Morey

Jack Shiro Morey lives in Anaheim Hills, California with his wife, Janet (Nomura). He is president of the J. Morey ...

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Darryl Mori

Darryl Mori is a writer based in Los Angeles, specializing in the arts and the nonprofit sector. A Sansei and ...

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Sodo Mori

Dr. Sodo Mori is a renowned scholar of Indian philosophy and Buddhist studies. He had been a professor at Aichi ...

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Samuel Mori

Samuel Mori is a queer fourth generation Japanese American, third generation Chinese American and native Angelino. He is a member ...

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Bob Moriguchi

Bob Moriguchi, a retired pharmacist, is a volunteer docent at the Japanese American National Museum, located in Little Tokyo in ...

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Frank Moritsugu

Frank Moritsugu is a retired mainstream journalist who was the first Japanese Canadian to become a staffer on Maclean’s ...

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Kent Morizawa

Kent is a second generation Japanese American attorney and part-time writer. In his free time he likes to enjoy all ...

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Grace Morizawa

Grace Morizawa is a Sansei. Her parents met in Heart Mountain Concentration Camp, WY. Born in Los Angeles, she grew ...

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Jan Morrill

Jan Morrill was born and (mostly) raised in California. Her mother, a Buddhist Japanese American, was an internee at Tule ...

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Pierre Moulin

Pierre Moulin is born in Bruyeres where his father was a leader of the Resistance and member of the OSS ...

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Jean Oda Moy

Jean Oda Moy was born in Washington State and spent the war years in Japan. After the war she returned ...

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Ken Mukai

Ken Mukai is a second generation Japanese American, whose father is from Hiroshima. He grew up in West Los Angeles ...

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Eric L. Muller

Eric L. Muller is the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina ...

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Christine Munteanu

Christine Munteanu is the Ford Program Coordinator for the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), where she works on leadership, education ...

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David Mura

David Mura is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, critic, playwright and performance artist. His memoir Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a ...

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Julia Murakami

Julia Murakami is a Yonsei native Angeleno. When not volunteering at the Japanese American National Museum, she’s a self-employed ...

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Richard Murakami

Richard Murakami is a Sansei living in Southern California. In May 1994 he became a volunteer at the Japanese American ...

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Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda

Vicky K. Murakami-Tsuda is the Communications Production Manager at the Japanese American National Museum. She loves working on the Discover ...

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Gwen Muranaka

Gwen Muranaka has been English editor of The Rafu Shimpo since 2001. Prior to that, she worked in Tokyo at ...

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Mike Murase

Mike Murase is an administrator at a community-based nonprofit agency in Los Angeles. He lives in Culver City, California. He ...

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Alice Murata

Alice Murata is professor in the Department of Counselor Education at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and is co-founder of ...

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Misa Murohashi

Editor-in-chief of The North American Post. She graduated from Sophia University in 2000 with a degree in Economics and worked ...

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Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is a Japanese/American multicultural psychologist and author specializing in understanding and illuminating issues of diversity and identity ...

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Lara Mylord

Lara Mylord was born in Germany in February 1987. She has been studying English and French at the University of ...

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Tyrone Nagai

Tyrone Nagai received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. His work has appeared in Fiction International ...

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Ernest Nagamatsu

Ernest lives in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. In addition to his dental practice, he writes from time ...

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Heather Nagami

Heather Nagami is the author of Hostile (Chax Press). A Kundiman fellow, her poems have recently appeared in Hawai‘i ...

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Patty Ito Nagano

Patty Ito Nagano, is a retired elementary school teacher and moved to Downtown Little Tokyo with her husband Steve in ...

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Jorge Nagao

Jorge Nagao was born in Vera Cruz, in the state of São Paulo, in 1952. He lives in S ...

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Asuka Anne Nagase

Asuka Anne Nagase is a second-generation Japanese American from San Francisco, California, with experience living and working abroad in Osaka ...

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Yukikazu Nagashima

Born in Chiba City and graduated from Waseda University. In 1979, he moved the U.S. He worked at California ...

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Mark Nagata

Mark Nagata is a Sansei artist, toy designer, and creator of Max Toy Company. He has worked as a freelance ...

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Kyoko Yanagida Nakagawa

Kyoko Yanagida Nakagawa is a psychologist with a degree from the Institute of Psychology of the University of São ...

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Martha Nakagawa

Martha Nakagawa has worked in the Asian American press for the past two decades, and has been on staff with ...

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Mako Nakagawa

Retired educator with the Seattle Public Schools where she worked as a teacher, as a program manager of the popular ...

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Kathy Nakagawa

Kathy Nakagawa is a professor in the Asian-American Studies department at Arizona State University. She grew up in the Phoenix ...

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Carolyn Nakagawa

Carolyn Nakagawa is a Yonsei Japanese Canadian who was born and raised in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC. As a ...

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Yasuko Nakamachi

A Research Fellow at Kanagawa University’s Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture. She majored in Folkloristics and ...

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Kyoko Nakamaru

Kyoko Nakamaru is a Japanese and Swedish Yonsei who currently resides on the westside of Los Angeles. Raised in Wisconsin ...

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Arlene Nakamura

Arlene Nakamura is a retired elementary school teacher. She was recently installed as the first female president of Nanka Yamaguchi ...

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Eric Nakamura

Eric Nakamura graduated from UCLA with a degree in East Asian Studies. He got his start in magazine making through ...

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Raymond Nakamura

Raymond Nakamura lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. When he is not personal assistant to his daughter, he writes Vogon ...

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Lora Nakamura

Lora Nakamura is a fourth generation Japanese American and Los Angeles native, with a background in education and social work ...

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Robert Nakamura

Robert Nakamura is a Professor of Political Science Emeritus from the Albany campus of the State University of New York ...

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Lisa Nakamura

Lisa Nakamura, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist who works in San Francisco. A Sansei originally from San Jose, she ...

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Teruo Nakanishi

Teruo Nakanishi was born in Hiroshima in 1944 and retired after a 35 year career with a Japanese trading conglomerate ...

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Mari Nakano

Mari Nakano is a Japanese American designer and writer, obsessive organizer, and creative problem-solver. She currently resides in New York ...

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Genie Nakano

Genie Nakano is a poet/writer, dancer with a master's degree in dance from University of California, Los Angeles ...

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Eduardo Goo Nakashima

Fifty-three-year-old Brazilian Nisei from Mogi das Cruzes, holding a degree in architecture from the University of São Paulo, and ...

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Wayne Nakata

Wayne Nakata was born and raised on Bainbridge Island. He worked in his family's Town and Country store until ...

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Emma Nakatani Sánchez

Emma Nakatani Sánchez is a historian who graduated from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and studied life stories and ...

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Masaru Edmund Nakawatase

Masaru Edmund Nakawatasee was born in Poston, Arizona, and raised along with other Nikkei in Seabrook, New Jersey. He went ...

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Delia Tomino Nakayama

Delia Tomino Nakayama is a poet, singer/songwriter, painter, teacher and community arts organizer. Originally from the Bay Area, Delia ...

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Ken Narasaki

Ken Narasaki is an actor and writer whose first professional production was at Seattle’s Asian Exclusion Act in 1976 ...

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Sachio Negawa

Sachio Negawa is an assistant professor in the departments of Translations and Foreign Languages at the University of Brasília ...

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Tooru Nemoto

Dr. Tooru Nemoto has long worked with marginalized populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spearheaded the Targeted Expansion ...

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Greg Nesteroff

Greg Nesteroff is editor of the Nelson (BC) Star and is interested in the history of the West Kootenay region ...

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Esther Newman

Esther Newman recently moved back to her hometown of Encinitas, California. After college and a career in marketing and media ...

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Lisa Nakamura Nguyen

Born in Canada to a Vietnamese father and Japanese mother, Lisa embraces her 'tridentities' (triple identities). As a fluent Japanese ...

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Freedom Nguyen

Freedom Nguyen is a Vietnamese American writer and political food blogger with doseoffreedom.com. He is fascinated when food becomes ...

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Nichi Bei Times

Nichi Bei Times is Northern California's oldest and most honored Japanese American newspaper. Updated January 2009

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Nichi Bei Weekly

The Nichi Bei Weekly, published by the Nichi Bei Foundation, rose out of the ashes of the historic legacy of ...

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Brian Niiya

Once and always a "Spoiled Sansei," Brian Niiya is currently the content director for Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project ...

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Tamiko Nimura

Tamiko Nimura is a Sansei/Pinay writer, originally from Northern California and now living in the Pacific Northwest. Her writing ...

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Masato Ninomiya

Masato Ninomiya is a practicing attorney in São Paulo. He is also a Doctor-Professor of the University of S ...

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Calvin Ninomiya

Calvin Ninomiya is intermittently retired. An aging lawyer [ex-Seattle; ex-Minidoka], he retired after serving as Chief Counsel, US Treasury (Public ...

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Barbara Nishimoto

Barbara Nishimoto was born in Chicago. She is a Sansei who now lives in Nashville, TN. Updated July 2015

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James Nishimura

James Nishimura is a Japanese Canadian Sansei who grew up during World War II and postwar Canada. He married in ...

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Karen “Nish” Nishimura

Karen “Nish” Nishimura is a Sansei from Los Angeles and an independent writer and branded entertainment producer. She has led ...

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Alan Nishio

Alan Nishio retired from CSU Long Beach after a career teaching in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies ...

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John Nishio

John Nishio was born and raised in Pasadena. He owned a handcraft ceramic business for almost 40 years, before becoming ...

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Victor Nishio Yasuoka

Victor Nishio Yasuoka is a third-generation descendant of Japanese immigrants in Peru. Halfway through elementary school, he moved with his ...

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Togo Nishiura

Togo Nishiura, born in California in November 1931, is the second of seven children of the immigrants Shingo and Chiyoko ...

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Myra Nishizaki

Myra Nishizaki is a fourth generation Japanese American and Los Angeles native. A hapa of Japanese and Caucasian heritage, Myra ...

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Janice E. Noguchi

Janice E. Noguchi, the daughter of Harry Haruki and Matsuko Nancy Noguchi of Sacramento, is an accounting major at San ...

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Rick Noguchi

Rick Noguchi’s publications include two collections of poetry, The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), which ...

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Naomi Noiri

Naomi Noiri is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Center for Migration Studies at the University of the Ryukyus. Her specialty ...

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Art Nomura

Art Nomura is a media maker and Professor Emeritus in TV/Film Production at Loyola Marymount University. He is the ...

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Nikkei Student Union at UCLA

The Nikkei Student Union(NSU) at UCLA was founded in 1981 by Ken Minami, Albert Saisho, and Kenji Saisho to ...

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Toshiro Obara

メキシコ生まれ日系メキシコ人二世。筑波大学卒業後、ボストン大学大学院進学。国際関係学修士。現在はロサンゼルスでReiyukai Americaにて事務局長として勤務。（2015年10月更新）

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John Oda

The Reverend John Oda is the Senior Pastor at Pine United Methodist Church. He holds a Masters in Social Welfare ...

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Nancy Kyoko Oda

Nancy Kyoko Oda was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center. She is a retired elementary school principal, San Fernando ...

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Mário Henrique Ogasavara

Mário Henrique Ogasavara did his undergraduate in Business Administration at Londrina State University (Brazil), concluded his MBA and Ph ...

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Dennis M. Ogawa

Dr. Ogawa received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1969 where he was honored as one of the founders of ...

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Alan Ohashi

Alan Ohashi is the principal and owner of Ohashi Design Studio, a ten-person architectural firm in Emeryville, California. Prior to ...

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Kohei Ohsawa

Kohei Ohsawa was born on May 3, 1990, in Toshima Ward, Tokyo. In 2013, he graduated from the Sophia University ...

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Célia Abe Oi

Célia Abe Oi is a journalist and historian. She has worked for periodicals with ties to the Nikkei community ...

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Lorene Oikawa

Lorene Oikawa is a Yonsei, fourth generation, British Columbian whose family migrated from Japan in the 1800’s and 1906 ...

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Hudson Okada

Udê, a.k.a. Hudson Okada, was born in the city of Matão, São Paulo, on Aug. 2 ...

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Ariel Okamoto

Ariel Okamoto is a fourth-generation Japanese American living in Los Angeles. She currently works as a copywriter at UCLA and ...

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Michael Okamura

Mike, a Nikkei Yonsei, has Southern California roots that go back to the early 1900s. He volunteers with organizations in ...

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Dean Okamura

Dean Okamura graduated from UCLA in Psychobiology before we had personal computers. Then that all changed resulting in a career ...

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Julie Okamura

Julie Okamura is the great-granddaughter-in-law of Miyoshi Okamura. She wrote Miyoshi's story and produced the video about her in ...

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Michiko Okano

Michiko Okano holds a PhD in Communication and Semiotics and is Assistant Professor in the History of Asian Art at ...

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Nilza Matiko Iwakura Okano

A native of Arapongas, Paraná, she has a Business Administration degree from the State University of Londrina (UEL). She is ...

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Eiji Okawa

Eiji Okawa is a historian with interests in how people organize their society and relate to one another. His fields ...

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Bobby Okinaka

Bobby Okinaka is the Web Editor for Discover Nikkei. He grew up on military bases around the world but now ...

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Dwight Okita

Dwight Okita's novel THE PROSPECT OF MY ARRIVAL made it to the top 3 out of 5,000 books ...

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Ken Okuno

Ken Okuno is a Sansei, born and raised in Pasadena, California. A poet, novelist, and musician, he currently lives in ...

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Gary Okura

Gary Okura is an admirer of the arts and crafts created in the Japanese style by relatively unknown Japanese American ...

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Maryka Omatsu

In 1993 Maryka Omatsu was the first woman of East Asian ancestry appointed a judge in Canada. A sansei, she ...

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Chizu Omori

Chizu Omori is a freelance journalist and critic whose work can be found in the Nichi Bei Times and Seattle ...

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Mike Omoto

Mike is a Japanese American living in Japan, teaching English as an ALT in the Japanese public school system. He ...

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Noemi Onelli

Noemi Onelli was born and raised in southern California to a third generation Japanese American mother and an Italian father ...

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James Ong

James Ong is currently a second year MA student in the Asian American Studies Program at UCLA. His research project ...

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Hiroshi Onishi

Born in 1955 in Kagawa prefecture, Japan. Graduate of Waseda University’s Political Science & Economics Department with a B.A ...

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Yuichiro Onishi

Yuichiro Onishi is an associate professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota ...

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Gary T. Ono

Gary T. Ono, is a Sansei transplant from San Francisco, California who now resides in the Little Tokyo area of ...

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Diana Keiko Ando-Ono

Diana Keiko Ando-Ono, a sansei born in Los Angeles, lives in Gardena, CA, works in Long Beach, CA. She considers ...

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Oregon Nikkei Endowment

The mission of the Oregon Nikkei Endowment is to preserve and honor the history and culture of Japanese Americans in ...

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Susan Osa

Susan Osa is a marketing/communications professional with experience on projects ranging from print, web/new media, to environmental graphics ...

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Kelly Osajima

Kelly Osajima is a Yonsei millennial and the Voter Engagement Manager for Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles, the largest ...

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Gaby Oshiro

Gaby Oshiro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Treviso, Italy. Gaby got her love for visual ...

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Tony Osumi

Tony Osumi is a Hapa Yonsei who lives in Culver City, CA with his family. Currently, he teaches 3rd grade ...

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Mina Otsuka

Mina Otsuka is a Japanese translator and writer. She earned a BA in Literary Journalism from the University of California ...

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Richard Oyama

Richard Oyama has a Master’s degree in English, Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His work has appeared ...

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Matthew O’Mara

Matthew O’Mara is Managing Editor of Nikkei Voice. He enjoys writing about Japanese culture, arts, and video games, but ...

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Kristi P.

Kristy P. was a student at Mills College and took Prof. Maggie Hunter’s Sociology of Immigration course. Updated June ...

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Kiyoshi Parker

Kiyoshi Parker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He shares heritages with two countries: America and Japan, and ...

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Freddie Parra

Freddie Parra is professor of psychology and sociology at California State University, Pomona.Updated February 2016

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Chico Pascoal

Chico Pascoal is from the town of Cratéus, in the Northeastern state of Ceará. He was a finalist chronicler ...

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Sue Pascoe

Sue Pascoe has been a staff writer at the Palisadian Post for the past five years and has lived in ...

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Nancy Patrick

Nancy Patrick taught English and composition over 30 years in both high school and college before retiring in 2014. She ...

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Valentina Peguero

Valentina Peguero is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of History of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She obtained a ...

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Vedette Philip

Vedette is currently a Junior majoring in Asian Studies at Occidental College. Originally from New York, she traveled across the ...

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Christine Piper

Christine Piper was raised in Australia but is now a writer and editor based in New York. Her mother is ...

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Morgan Pitelka

Morgan Pitelka is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College. He has published Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and ...

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Pomai

Pomai was born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii. He currently resides and works in Honolulu. His favorite cuisine is Japanese ...

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Fiona Potter

Fiona Potter grew up in La Canada, California. She is a former Discover Nikkei intern currently living and working in ...

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Judith van Praag

Writer and artist Judith van Praag moved from the Netherlands to Seattle, WA, where she covers art, artists and architecture ...

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Albert Quach

Albert Quach is a mixed Asian American and undergraduate at UCLA. His major is Psychology and will be graduating in ...

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Andrea Lita Rademan

Andrea Rademan is the Vice President of the International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association. Her writing is published worldwide ...

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Dean Raffaelli

Dean Raffaelli is a family physician practicing in Chicago and is president of the Chado Urasenke Tankokai Chicago Association. Updated ...

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Dmitri Ragano

Dmitri Ragano has wandered the world in his quest to become a story-teller. He grew up in Pittsburgh and lived ...

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Debra Redsteer

Debra Jean McCabe Redsteer is a full blood Navajo, whose clans are Red Bottom born for Bitter Water. McCabe Redsteer ...

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Allison Reed

Allison Reed is a second year JET program Assistant Language Teacher living and teaching in the city of Goshogawara in ...

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Ryan Reft

Ryan Reft is a doctoral candidate in urban history at the University of California San Diego. His work has appeared ...

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Samuel O. Regalado

Samuel O. Regalado was born and raised in the Los Angeles area where he earned his B.A. in history ...

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Linda Kawamoto Reid

As a Hapa Sansei, Linda’s interest in Nikkei history was tweaked with the renaissance of Japanese Canadian history and ...

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Richard Reynolds

Richard Reynolds worked at Mother Jones magazine for thirty-two years, mainly in the role of communications director, and retired in ...

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Edward M. Richstone

Edward M. Richstone is a retired school psychologist. He has written articles on a variety of topics for civic organizations ...

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Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the just-released novel Shadow Child, as well as the memoir, Hiroshima in the ...

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Greg Robinson

Greg Robinson, a native New Yorker, is Professor of History at l'Université du Québec À Montréal, a French-language ...

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Curtiss Takada Rooks

Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks is Special Assistant to the Dean of Bellarmine College and Assistant Professor in Asian Pacific American ...

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Mariko Fujimoto Rooks

Mariko Fujimoto Rooks is a mixed race Japanese American and African American first-year student at Yale University, where she studies ...

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Louis Edward Rosas

American Mishima is the creative work of Louis Edward Rosas, author of Ichiro Dreams In Color, The Solider and the ...

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Amaranth Rose

Amaranth Rose lives on the Pacific coast in rural Mexico. She and her husband have an organic farm with over ...

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Andrew B. Russell

Andrew (Andy) Russell teaches history at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. He earned his Ph.D. in history ...

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Bruce Rutledge

Bruce Rutledge worked as a journalist in Japan for 15 years before moving to Seattle to found Chin Music Press ...

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David Sabey

A life-long resident of the Puget Sound area, David Sabey is a commercial real estate developer with a particular focus ...

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John Saito, Jr.

John Saito, Jr. is the former editor of the English Section of the Rafu Shimpo . Updated Winter 2001

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Brynn Saito

Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating ...

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Pogo Saito

Pogo Saito, a Sansei, recently re-transplanted to Nyssa, Oregon, home to a large population of Nikkei who settled there after ...

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Koji Steven Sakai

Koji Steven Sakai has written four feature films that have been produced, Haunted Highway (2006), The People I’ve Slept ...

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Sonoko Sakai

Sonoko Sakai is a food writer, Japanese cooking instructor and soba maker based in Los Angeles, California. Her kitchen memoirs ...

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Denise Sakaki

Denise Sakaki is a writer, photographer and graphic designer, always hungry for creative expression. She is the creator behind the ...

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Arthur Sakamoto

Arthur Sakamoto is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on social inequality as ...

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Roy Y. Sakamoto

Roy Y. Sakamoto is a Nisei who was born after World War II, growing up on a strawberry farm in ...

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Yukari Sakamoto

Born in Tokyo, Yukari Sakamoto is the author of Food Sake Tokyo published by The Little Bookroom as part of ...

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Chester Sakamoto

Chester Sakamoto is a self-proclaimed bibliophile and avid reader. A 26-year-old native of Los Angeles, he is currently in pursuit ...

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Jeanne Sakata

Jeanne Sakata is a Sansei actress and playwright living in Los Angeles, California. She has been acting since 1983 at ...

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Susan S. Sakayori

Susan (Susie) S. Sakayori is a third generation Japanese American and a long-time resident of Japan. Last year she had ...

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Melina Sakiyama

Melina Sakiyama is a Nikkei Brazilian who is studying for her master's degree in Environmental Education in the Graduate ...

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Alejandro Sakuda

Alejandro Sakuda is a journalist who graduated from the Catholic Pontifical University in Peru, and on two occasions has served ...

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Célia Sakurai

Célia Sakurai is a researcher on the history of Japanese immigration in Brazil. She is the author of Romanceiro ...

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John Sammon

John Sammon is a freelance writer and newspaper reporter, novelist and historical fiction writer, non-fiction book writer, political pundit and ...

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Claudio Sampei

Born in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Claudio Sampei is a Chemical Engineer specializing in Business Administration ...

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Scott A. Sandage

Scott Sandage is a cultural historian at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in the nineteenth-century United States and in the ...

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Chiori Santiago

Former editor of Nikkei Heritage, the magazine of the National Japanese American Historical Society. Updated 2009

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Lindsey Sasaki

Lindsey Sasaki, a yonsei, specializes in cross-cultural exchange and training with an emphasis on international migration, ethnic identity, and Latin ...

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Brian Y. Sato

Brian Y. Sato is a professional photographer from Honolulu, Hawai‘i. A graduate of the University of Hawai‘i at ...

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Shane Sato

Shane Sato has spent most of his career working in publicity and advertising in the U.S. and Asia. He ...

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Eric Saul

Eric Saul is the founder of the nonprofit organization Visas for Life and the Executive Director of ISRAH. He served ...

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Mary M. Schroeder

The Honorable Mary M. Schroeder served as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

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Julia Schulte

Julia Schulte was born in Germany in September, 1987. She has been studying English and American Studies as well as ...

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Anna Katharina Schulz

Anna Katharina Schulz was born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, on September 22, 1986. She is studying German and English languages ...

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Margaret Schulze

Margaret Schulze is a contributor to Nikkei West, Nikkei Family and a member of the Nikkei Heritage editorial board. Updated ...

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Shizue Seigel

Shizue Seigel explores history, place, and spirituality through photographic and mixed media, painting, poetry and prose. She has exhibited locally ...

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Sunny Seki

Sunny Seki (a.k.a. Sankyaku Seki) is a teacher of senryu. He has published two compiled works: Gardeners’ Pioneer ...

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Yujiro Seki

Born and raised in Japan, Yujiro Seki discovered his passion for film-making when he was in high school. Through making ...

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Eugene Sekiguchi

Dr. Eugene Sekiguchi earned his DDS and MSEE from the University of Southern California and his BSEE from the University ...

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Katrina Senn

Katrina Senn, 21, is currently a senior at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. A bi-lingual French and English speaker ...

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Michael M. Sera

Born and raised in San Francisco, CA by his Issei parents who raised him with Japanese values at home while ...

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Natalie Mariko Sheldrake

Natalie Mariko Sheldrake was born in Geneva, Switzerland and moved to Canada at age 2. She is a Sansei of ...

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Parry Shen

Parry Shen has been professionally acting for 13 years, credits include: “Better Luck Tomorrow”, “Hatchet”, “Brothers & Sisters”, “Criminal Minds” and ...

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Daisuke Shen

Daisuke Shen is a Sansei writer currently based in Wilmington, North Carolina, although they were raised in both Greenville, South ...

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Naoko Shibusawa

Naoko Shibusawa is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University. Before moving to Brown in 2004, she ...

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Matsunosuke Shibuya

Matsunosuke Shibuya was born on March 15, 1906 in Kanagawa-ken, Japan. He emigrated to Canada at the age of 18 ...

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Laurie Shigekuni

Laurie Shigekuni is the principal attorney at the law office of Laurie Shigekuni & Associates, a firm that practices estate planning ...

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Candice Shikai

Candice Shikai is currently a fourth year undergraduate at UCLA and Director of the Asian Pacific Coalition. The Asian Pacific ...

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Stanley N. Shikuma

Stanley N. Shikuma is a Sansei who grew up in Watsonville, California. His family members went to Poston and Tule ...

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Yobun Shima

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Alexandra Chang

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Yuriko Chavez

Carol Cheh

Susan Chen

Jennifer Chen

Chris Cheng

Haruka Chiba

Chicago Japanese American Historical Society

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Elleanor Chin

Lesley Chinen

Karleen C. Chinen

A’misa Chiu

Raymond Chong

Kandice Chuh

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Fredrick Cloyd

Diana Morita Cole

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Roger Daniels

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