Nobu McCarthy
Actress and artistic director of East West Players.
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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.
Yayoi Shibata
Abstract painter
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.
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.