Asian Descent Archives - Page 2 of 29

Sae Tachikawa

Picture bride who was a noted educator and promoter of Japanese culture in Hawai’i.

Sanae Kawaguchi

Versatile Nisei performer and literary artist who made her mark in mainstream circles in New York during the postwar era.

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.

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.

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.

Ruth Nomura Tanbara

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.