Mari Sabusawa Michener
Mari Sabusawa Michener (1920–94) was a Japanese American activist and philanthropist.
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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.
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.
Monica Sone
Seattle-born author of Nisei Daughter, the first published autobiography written by a Nisei woman, and Ohio clinical psychologist. Monica Itoi Sone’s (1919–2011) sensitive, often humorous book, notable for its lack of bitterness, explored the themes of cultural identity, assimilation, racism and intergenerational conflict in the Seattle Japanese American community and at the U.S. government camp Minidoka.