Asian Descent Archives - Page 14 of 40

Sei Soga

Issei activist in Hawai’i who promoted Japanese cultural traditions and connections between Hawai’i and Japan.

Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (1921–92) was an award-winning writer of children’s books, all of which are based on aspects of Japanese and Japanese American history and culture.

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

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.