Mary Mon Toy
Singer and showgirl best known for her comedic role as Minnie Ho in The World of Suzie Wong on Broadway.
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Mary Tsukamoto
Mary Tsukamoto (1915–98), a longtime educator and cultural historian, became an author and leading advocate of redress for Japanese Americans removed during World War II.
Momoko Iko
Playwright and writer Momoko Iko (1940-2020) was the author of several acclaimed plays as well as prose, poetry, and fiction.
Mothers of Topaz
In response to the restoration of Selective Service for Nisei, some Issei mothers in Topaz organized to write a petition protesting the continued discrimination against their sons’ citizenship rights.
Yukiko Kimura
Pioneering sociologist who wrote about Japanese and Okinawan Americans in Hawai’i during and after 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.
Midori Kono Thiel
Nisei calligrapher, printmaker, and performer of Japanese traditional arts.
Miya Sannomiya Kikuchi
Cultural ambassador and journalist.
Miyoko Ito
Miyoko Ito (1918–83) was a watercolor and abstract oil painter and printmaking artist.
Momo Nagano
Momo Nagano (1925-2010) was an artist renowned for her weaving and other textile works.