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Rose Matsui Ochi

While serving as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow for the Western Center on Law and Poverty she won the landmark educational law reform case, Serrano v. Priest, serving as the co-counsel of record.

A celebrated opera soprano, Ruby Yoshino was among the first Nisei to achieve national stardom as a singer, and later served as president of the New York City Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) chapter.

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.

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.

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