Hisaye Yamamoto
Southern California Nisei writer of short stories Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011) was among the first Japanese American writers to win national renown after World War II.
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Janice Mirikitani
Award-winning poet, dancer, activist and educator Janice Mirikitani (1942–2021) was internationally known and respected for her life-long commitment to addressing the horrors of war and for advocating against institutional racism and the enslavement of women and the poor.
Katharine Luomala
Anthropologist and Community Analysis Section staff member; co-author of Impounded People: Japanese Americans in the Relocation Centers.
Louise Suski
Louise J. Suski (1905-2003) was the first English language editor-in-chief at the Los Angeles-based Rafu Shimpo newspaper.
Mary Oyama Mittwer
Mary “Mollie” Oyama Mittwer (1907–1994) was a Nisei journalist whose writing reflected many of the issues her generation faced during World War II.
Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Activist and author of Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, the first comprehensive book about the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans written by a Nisei.
Miya Sannomiya Kikuchi
Cultural ambassador and journalist.
Momoko Iko
Playwright and writer Momoko Iko (1940-2020) was the author of several acclaimed plays as well as prose, poetry, and fiction.
Monica Sone
Seattle-born author of Nisei Daughter, the first published autobiography written by a Nisei woman, and Ohio clinical psychologist. Monica Itoi Sone’s (1919–2011) sensitive, often humorous book, notable for its lack of bitterness, explored the themes of cultural identity, assimilation, racism and intergenerational conflict in the Seattle Japanese American community and at the U.S. government camp Minidoka.
Patsy Sumie Saiki
Educator and author of books on Japanese Americans in Hawai’i.