Asian Descent Archives - Page 11 of 40

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 (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.

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.