Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
Setsuko Nishi (1921-2012) worked as a researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study and as a community activist before going on to a notable career as a scholar of race relations.
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Dr Ishiko Shibuya Mori
An early Issei female physician, Ishiko Shibuya Mori (1899–1972) was one of eight women from Hawai’i sent into internment on the mainland during WWII.
Wendy Yoshimura
Artist and fugitive who was arrested with heiress Patricia Hearst in a notorious 1970s case.
Toyo Suyemoto
Nisei inmate, librarian, poet, and memoirist.
Toshiko Takaezu
One of America’s foremost ceramic artists and a highly regarded teacher of ceramics. She was credited with being one of the key figures in the mid-century transformation of ceramics from craft to fine art.
Toki Wakayama
The Wakayama case was a wartime test case that challenged the detention of Japanese Americans forcibly removed from the West Coast.
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.