Fumiko Yoshitada
Co-inventor of the rice cooker
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Dr Manjula O’Connor
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
Coral Wong Pietsch
On March 30, 2001, Coral Wong Pietsch became the first female Asian American general officer in the Army and the first female general officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps’ (JAG) 230-year history.
Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi was a poetess of great renown during Japan’s Heian Period (794-1185 CE)
Himiko
Queen Himiko was a 3rd-century CE ruler of the territory in ancient Japan known as Hsieh-ma-t’ai or Yamatai, later to be known as Yamato. Considered by the Chinese as the ruler of all of Japan or Wa, given her state’s power, she exchanged diplomatic embassies with the ruling Wei dynasty.
Shar Dubey
Match Group engineer and CEO
Vera Wang
American fashion designer
Zarna Garg
Indian-American comedian
Tatsu’uma Kiyo
Tatsu’uma Kiyo built her family’s sake business into an empire in the 1800s
Dr Teruko Ishizaka
Working with her husband, she co-discovered allergen-specific antibody proteins called immunoglobulin E (or IgE), publishing their findings in 1966