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.
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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.
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.
Ruth Nomura Tanbara
In August of 1942, Ruth Tanbara and her husband, Earl, were the first Japanese Americans to resettle in St. Paul as a result of President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066. They assisted the St. Paul Resettlement Committee during World War II and remained in the city after the war’s end, becoming life-long community leaders in St. Paul.
Wakako Yamauchi
Distinguished playwright, short-story writer, poet and painter.
Tsuyako “Sox” Kitashima
San Francisco Bay Area-based Nisei redress activist who has been called the heart and soul of San Francisco National Coalition for Redress/Reparations
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.