Jean Sadako King
Lieutenant governor of Hawai’i, 1979–83.
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Julia Suski
Artist and musician
Kay Sekimachi
Internationally acclaimed master weaver and fiber artist
Lily Okamoto
A Hawai’i-born, politically active Sansei who was the first woman in the Islands to be both a certified public accountant and licensed attorney.
Louise Suski
Louise J. Suski (1905-2003) was the first English language editor-in-chief at the Los Angeles-based Rafu Shimpo newspaper.
Margie Masako Yamamoto
The artist and Japanese sumi-e and calligraphy teacher “Koho”
Mari Okazaki
Mari Okazaki (1916-2005) was a psychiatric social worker who participated in the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS) as a researcher and continued her career in social care in the postwar years.
Mari Sabusawa Michener
Mari Sabusawa Michener (1920–94) was a Japanese American activist and philanthropist.
Mary Nomura
Singer known as the “Songbird of Manzanar.”
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.