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Chio Tominaga

Textile artist Chio Tominaga (1883-1986) was originally from Kumamoto, Japan, and immigrated to the United States in 1912 as a picture bride.

Chiye Mori

Loretta Chiye Mori was a poet and journalist who contributed regular columns and articles to numerous Southern California Japanese American publications.

Jean Sadako King

Lieutenant governor of Hawai’i, 1979–83.

Kay Sekimachi

Internationally acclaimed master weaver and fiber artist

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.