Toki Wakayama
The Wakayama case was a wartime test case that challenged the detention of Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast.
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Teiko Ishida
Teiko Ishida (1916-98) was the first woman to be appointed to the national board of the Japanese American Citizens League in 1939 and was the first woman appointed to the position of national secretary of the JACL from 1943 to 1945.
Dr Tamie Tsuchiyama
The only Japanese American woman to work full-time for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).
Mitsuye Yamada
Acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada’s work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Sueko Kimura
Japanese American Nisei artist and teacher based in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Shimeji Kanazawa
Nisei activist who was the community liaison between the Japanese community and the military government in Hawai’i during World War II. She later supported community causes for the elderly like Project Dana.
Ruth Nomura Tanbara
In August of 1942, Ruth Tanbara and her husband, Earl, were the first Japanese Americans to resettle in St. Paul as a result of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. They assisted the St. Paul Resettlement Committee during World War II and remained in the city after the war’s end, becoming life-long community leaders in St. Paul.
Wakako Yamauchi
Distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter.
Tsuyako “Sox” Kitashima
San Francisco Bay Area-based Nisei redress activist who has been called the heart and soul of San Francisco National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
Carolyn Hisako Tanaka
Nicknamed Road Runner for her unflagging energy and enthusiasm, Carolyn Hisako Tanaka served in Vietnam in spite of a scarring childhood memory.