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==Japanifornia Icons==
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! style="width: 33%;" | Name
! style="width: 15%;" | Birth Year
! style="width: 52%;" | Bio
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| [[Miyoshi Umeki]]
| 1929
| Miyoshi Umeki was the first East-Asian actor to win an Academy Award for her role in "Sayonara" in 1957.
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| [[Larry Shinoda]]
| 1930
| Larry Shinoda was a Japanese American car designer who designed the Chevrolet Corvette and the Ford Mustang.
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| [[Yuri Kochiyama]]
| 1921
| Yuri Kochiyama was an American Civil Rights activist who worked with Malcolm X in Harlem.
|-
| [[Hiroshi Fujiwara]]
| 1964
| Hiroshi Fujiwara, the Godfather of Streetwear from Japan, collaborated with Tinker Hatfield and Mark Parker at Nike to produce the HTM sub-brand.
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| [[Steve Yano]]
| 1950
| Steve Yano, 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.
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| [[Wataru Misaka]]
| 1923
| Wataru Misaka broke the color barrier in professional basketball when he played three games for the New York Knicks in 1947.
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| [[Sessue Hayakawa]]
| 1886
| Sessue Hayakawa was a Japanese actor and matinee idol during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s.
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| [[Sono Osato]]
| 1919
| Sono Osato was a half Japanese dancer in the 1930s, and later an activist and philanthropist.
|-
| [[Isamu Noguchi]]
| 1904
| Isamu Noguchi was a half Japanese sculptor and artist.
|-
| [[Rocky Aoki]]
| 1938
| Rocky Aoki was the founder of Benihana, and an incorrigible 60s and 70s philanderer.
|-
| [[Michio Kaku]]
| 1947
| Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and science communicator known for his work in string theory.
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| [[Ellison Onizuka]]
| 1946
| Ellison Onizuka was an astronaut who died in the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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| [[Kristi Yamaguchi]]
| 1971
| Kristi Yamaguchi is an Olympic gold medalist figure skater.
|-
| [[Sab Shimono]]
| 1943
| Sab Shimono is an actor and director known for his work in film and theater.
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| [[Fred Korematsu]]
| 1919
| Fred Korematsu was a civil rights activist who resisted Japanese American internment during World War II.
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| [[Patsy Mink]]
| 1927
| Patsy Mink was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Congress.
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| [[Richard Aoki]]
| 1938
| Richard Aoki was a civil rights activist and member of the Black Panther Party.
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| [[Steven Okazaki]]
| 1952
| Steven Okazaki is a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 1991.
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