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==Suggested Starting Points:== * [[:Category:Japanese Comic Book Characters|Japanese Comic Book Characters]] * [[Japanese in Pop Culture|Japanese in American Pop Culture]] We tend to follow rabbit holes for Japanese and Japanese American character actors from the 70s and 80s. ===Japanifornia Icons=== * [[Miyoshi Umeki]] the first Eastr-Asian actor to win an Academy Award for her role in Sayonara in 1957. * [[Larry Shinoda]], a Japanese American car designer who designed the Chevrolet Corvette and the Ford Mustang. * [[Yuri Kochiyama]] an American Civil Rights activist who worked with Malcom X in Harlem. * [[Hiroshi Fujiwara]], the Godfather of Streetwear from Japan, who collaborated with Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker at Nike to produce the HTM sub-brand. * [[Steve Yano]], who with Dr. Dre and Tony A. Da Wizard, produced and sold the Roadium Mixed Tapes at Roadium Swap Meet in Gardena, California in the early 1980s. * [[Wataru Misaka]] broke the color barrier in professional basketball when he played three games for the New York Knicks in 1947. * [[Sessue Hayakawa]] was a Japanese actor and matinee idol during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. * [[Sono Osato]] was a half Japanese dancer in the 30s, and later an activist and philanthropist. * [[Isamu Noguchi]] was a half Japanese sculptor and artists. * [[Rocky Aoki]] founder of Benihana, and incorrigible 60s and 70s philanderer. ===ChatGPT Nikkei Top Ten=== * [[Yuri Kochiyama]], 1921-2014, human rights activist * [[Michio Kaku]], born in 1947, theoretical physicist and science communicator * [[Ellison Onizuka]], 1946-1986, astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster * [[Kristi Yamaguchi]], born in 1971, Olympic gold medalist figure skater * [[Sab Shimono]], born in 1943, actor and director * [[Fred Korematsu]], 1919-2005, civil rights activist * [[Sessue Hayakawa]], 1889-1973, actor and producer * [[Patsy Mink]], 1927-2002, first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress * [[Richard Aoki]], 1938-2009, civil rights activist and member of the Black Panther Party * [[Steven Okazaki]] - documentary filmmaker who has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1991. __NOTOC__
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