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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.

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.

Nobu McCarthy

Actress and artistic director of East West Players.

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.