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17:20, 17 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:1882 Births (Created page with "Category: Birth Years")
17:20, 17 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:1859 Births (Created page with "Category: Birth Years")
19:49, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi (Created page with "Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi was a Japanese American writer and journalist known for her firsthand account of life in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Nishi's family was forced to leave their home and relocate to the Tanforan Assembly Center, a temporary internment camp located in San Bruno, California, in 1942. They were later transferred to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah, where they remained until the end of the war. During her time in the...")
19:45, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Karen Narasaki (Created page with "Karen Narasaki is an American civil rights leader and activist with a long-standing commitment to social justice issues. Narasaki received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. After law school, she worked as an attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, a non-profit organization that provides legal services and advocates for the civil rights of Asian Americans an...")
19:42, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Tomio Moriguchi (Created page with "Tomio Moriguchi is a Japanese American business executive who was born on April 16, 1934, in Seattle, Washington. He is the former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of Uwajimaya, a family-owned Asian grocery store chain founded by his father. Moriguchi attended the University of Washington, where he earned a degree in pharmacy. After graduation, he worked as a pharmacist for several years before joining the family business, Uwajimaya, as its president in 1969. Under...")
19:32, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Janice Mirikitani (Created page with "Janice Mirikitani was an American poet, activist, and educator who was born on February 4, 1941, in Stockton, California. She was a child of Japanese American parents who were interned during World War II. The experience of being forced into an internment camp had a profound impact on her life and would later shape her art and activism. Mirikitani studied at San Francisco State University and earned her bachelor's degree in 1964. She went on to earn a master's degree in...")
05:53, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Dale Minami (Created page with "Dale Minami is a prominent American lawyer and activist who has played a key role in advocating for the civil rights of Asian Americans and other marginalized communities. He was born on October 13, 1946, in San Francisco, California. Minami is best known for his work on the landmark Korematsu v. United States case, which challenged the constitutionality of Japanese American internment during World War II. He was part of the legal team that successfully overturned the c...")
05:48, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Mich Matsudaira (Created page with "Michiye "Mich" Matsudaira was a Japanese American activist and community leader who played a key role in advocating for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated during World War II. Matsudaira was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1927, and her family was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from the West Coast and incarcerated in concentration camps during World War II. She spent...")
05:45, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Mari Matsuda (Created page with "Mari Matsuda is an American lawyer and scholar who is best known for her work in critical race theory and anti-discrimination law. She was born on June 5, 1956. Matsuda attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her bachelor's degree in English and anthropology. She went on to attend law school at Yale University, where she was one of only a few women of color in her class. After graduating, Matsuda worked for a time as a public defender in Chicag...")
05:42, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Mike Masaoka (Created page with "Mike Masaoka was a prominent Japanese American activist and civil rights leader who played a key role in advocating for the rights of Japanese Americans during World War II and beyond. He was born on October 8, 1915, in Sacramento, California, and died on October 23, 1991, in San Francisco. Masaoka grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood in California and experienced discrimination and racism firsthand. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in...")
05:39, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Sharon Maeda (Created page with "Sharon Maeda was an American journalist, community organizer, and civil rights activist known for her work in the Asian American community. She was born on December 6, 1945, in Seattle, Washington, and passed away on May 4, 2016. Maeda began her career as a radio journalist and producer in Seattle during the 1960s. She was one of the founding members of KBOO-FM, a community radio station in Portland, Oregon, where she produced a weekly program called "We the People," wh...")
05:33, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Aki Kurose (Created page with "'''Aki Kurose''' was a Japanese American educator, community activist, and civil rights leader who dedicated her life to fighting for social justice and education for all. Kurose was born in Seattle, Washington, on December 8, 1915. She was the daughter of Japanese immigrant parents and grew up in a predominantly Japanese American neighborhood in Seattle. After completing her education, Kurose became a teacher and worked in various schools in the Seattle area. She was a...")
05:31, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Kiyoshi Kuromiya (Created page with "Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943-2000) was an American civil rights activist, writer, and journalist who was a leading figure in the LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS movements. He was also an important activist in the movement for Japanese American redress and reparations. Born in a concentration camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, Kuromiya was raised by his mother in Los Angeles after his father was imprisoned in a separate internment camp. As a young man, he became involved in t...")
05:28, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Emi Koyama (Created page with "'''Emi Koyama''' is a Japanese-born, US-based writer, activist, and artist known for their work on issues related to gender, race, and sex work. Koyama was born on December 10, 1969, in Kobe, Japan, and later migrated to the United States. Koyama is a prolific writer, having published numerous articles and essays on topics related to transgender issues, sex work, and anti-oppression politics. They are perhaps best known for their work on the concept of "transmisogyny,"...")
05:26, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Tsuyako Kitashima (Created page with "Tsuyako Kitashima was a Japanese American who became a prominent figure in the redress movement for Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. She was born on December 25, 1913, in Seattle, Washington, and died on June 6, 2006, in San Francisco, California. During World War II, Kitashima was forcibly removed from her home and incarcerated in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp in California. After the war, she and...")
05:24, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Sen Katayama (Created page with "'''Sen Katayama''' was a Japanese American political activist, labor leader, and Marxist theorist. He was born on November 25, 1859, in the Fukushima prefecture of Japan and died on April 22, 1933, in New York City. Katayama was an active participant in the Japanese socialist movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo to work as a teacher and became involved in the socialist movement. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic...")
05:18, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Mineo Katagiri (Created page with "'''Mineo Katagiri''' was a prominent activist and community leader who fought for the rights of Japanese Americans during and after World War II. He was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1918, and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. During World War II, Katagiri and his family were forcibly removed from their home and sent to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, one of the many internment camps set up for Japanese Americans. While in the...")
05:14, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Lincoln Kanai (Created page with "Lincoln Kanai was a Japanese American activist and lawyer known for his work in advocating for the civil rights of Japanese Americans. He was born in California on May 13, 1920, to parents who were immigrants from Japan. He spent most of his childhood in California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. During World War II, Kanai was forcibly removed from his home and sent to a Japanese American internment camp in Topaz, Utah. After being rel...")
05:12, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Ayako Ishigaki (Created page with "Ayako Ishigaki was a Japanese American community activist and survivor of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1915 and grew up in the city's Nihonmachi, or Japantown, neighborhood. In 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Ishigaki and her family were forcibly removed from their home and sent to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho. While at the camp, Ishigaki worked as a nurse's aide and taught...")
05:10, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Kazu Iijima (Created page with "'''Kazu Iijima''' was a Japanese American activist and community leader. Born in Seattle, Washington on May 29, 1914, Iijima was the second of six children. His parents had immigrated from Japan and operated a small grocery store in Seattle. Iijima grew up in a community that faced discrimination and racism, but he was determined to make a positive impact. He attended the University of Washington, where he became involved in student government and other extracurricular...")
05:06, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Chris Iijima (Created page with "'''Chris Iijima''' was a Japanese American activist, songwriter, and musician who was born on November 30, 1948, in New York City. He is known for his contributions to the Asian American movement through his music and political activism. Iijima grew up in a working-class family in New York City, and he became interested in music and political activism during his college years. Along with his friends and fellow activists Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto and Charlie Chin, he formed...")
04:56, 15 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Paul Igasaki (Created page with "Paul Igasaki is a prominent Japanese American civil rights leader, born on May 4, 1953, in a Japanese American internment camp in Arkansas. He is known for his advocacy work for the rights of Asian Americans and other minority groups in the United States. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1978, Igasaki began his legal career working as a staff attorney at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where he worked on a number of ca...")
06:49, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Civil Liberties Act of 1988 (Created page with "The '''Civil Liberties Act of 1988'' is a United States federal law that granted reparations and an official apology to Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in internment camps during World War II. The act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1988. The act was a result of decades of efforts by the Japanese American community and its supporters to gain redress for the injustices committed...")
06:47, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page William Hohri (Created page with "William Minoru Hohri was a Japanese American activist and community leader who played a pivotal role in the redress movement. He was born on April 18, 1927, in San Francisco, California, and passed away on November 12, 2010, in Torrance, California. Hohri was just 16 years old when the United States government forced him and his family to leave their home and relocate to the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming during World War II. Following his release from the...")
06:41, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Hiroto Hirashima (Created page with "Hiroto Hirashima was a prominent Japanese American artist, educator, and community leader. He was born in 1920 in Seattle, Washington, and he passed away in 2012 at the age of 91. Hirashima grew up in a community of Japanese immigrants, many of whom were involved in the fishing industry. During World War II, like many other Japanese Americans, he and his family were forcibly relocated to an internment camp. He was sent to Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho, where h...")
06:39, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Hiram Kano (Created page with "Hiram Kano was a pioneering Japanese American photographer and cinematographer who made significant contributions to the development of visual media in the early 20th century. Kano was born on September 25, 1889, in Stockton, California, to immigrant parents from Japan. He grew up in California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1915 with a degree in civil engineering. After working as a civil engineer for a few years, Kano developed an intere...")
06:36, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (Created page with "Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga was a Japanese-American activist, researcher, and community leader. Born on July 19, 1924, in Los Angeles, California, Herzig-Yoshinaga is best known for her work in exposing and seeking reparations for the forced relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. During World War II, Herzig-Yoshinaga and her family were forced to leave their home in Los Angeles and were sent to the Manzanar internment camp in California. After th...")
06:33, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Poston (Created page with "An internment camp in WWII. Category: Culture Category: Nikkei")
06:32, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Frances Hashimoto (Created page with "Frances Hashimoto was a Japanese American businesswoman who is known for her contributions to the development of the mochi ice cream industry. She was born on August 16, 1919, in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, and died on November 4, 2012, at the age of 93. Hashimoto's family owned a confectionery store in Little Tokyo, and she grew up learning how to make traditional Japanese sweets. After her marriage to Joel Friedman, she became a partner i...")
06:28, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Marii Hasegawa (Created page with "Marii Hasegawa was a Japanese American activist, writer, and journalist who dedicated her life to advocating for civil rights and social justice. She was born on January 15, 1917, in Los Angeles, California, to immigrant parents from Japan. She passed away on December 5, 1989, in Los Angeles. Hasegawa's parents ran a grocery store in Los Angeles, and she grew up working in the store. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she earned a degree in hi...")
06:22, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Manzanar (Created page with "Internment camp in WWII. Category: Culture Category: Nikkei")
06:20, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Minidoka (Created page with "Category: Culture Category: Nikkei")
06:19, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Heart Mountain (Created page with "One of the Interment Camps in World War II. Category: Culture Category: Nikkei")
06:18, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn (Created page with "Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, also known as Noriko Flynn, was a prominent advocate for the civil rights of Japanese Americans and an activist for peace and justice. Born on December 6, 1926, in Yokohama, Japan, Noriko grew up in an affluent family that valued education and social status. In 1939, at the age of 13, Noriko and her family moved to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, Noriko and her family were among the 120,000 Japane...")
05:56, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Order of the Rising Sun (Created page with "The Order of the Rising Sun (旭日章, Kyokujitsu-shō) is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji. The Order was the first national decoration awarded by the Japanese government, created on 10 April 1875 by decree of the Council of State. The badge features rays of sunlight from the rising sun. The design of the Rising Sun symbolizes energy as powerful as the rising sun in parallel with the "rising sun" concept of Japan ("Land of the Rising Sun"). While...")
05:54, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Henry Hajimu Fujii (Created page with "Henry Hajimu Fujii was a prominent civil rights leader and community activist in Seattle's Japanese American community during the mid-20th century. Born on May 1, 1909, in Seattle, Washington, Fujii was the son of Japanese immigrants. He grew up in a community that was experiencing significant discrimination and anti-Japanese sentiment, particularly in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. In the 1930s and 1940s, Fujii became increasingly involved in community or...")
05:50, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Sei Fujii (Created page with "Sei Fujii was a prominent Japanese American attorney and community leader who was instrumental in fighting for the civil rights of Japanese Americans during World War II. He was born on December 12, 1882, in the city of Kagawa, Japan, and died on September 12, 1959, in Los Angeles, California. Fujii immigrated to the United States in 1903, eventually settling in Los Angeles, where he became a successful businessman and a leader in the local Japanese American community....")
05:42, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Frank S. Emi (Created page with "'''Frank Seishi Emi''' was a Japanese American activist who played a significant role in the Japanese American community during World War II. He was born on January 6, 1916, in Los Angeles, California, to parents who had immigrated from Japan. He grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles and attended Roosevelt High School. During World War II, Emi was incarcerated along with thousands of other Japanese Americans in the Manzanar internment camp in Californ...")
05:40, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Sue Kunitomi Embrey (Created page with "Sue Kunitomi Embrey was a Japanese American activist and community leader, best known for her work in preserving the history and memory of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Embrey was born on September 21, 1923, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were immigrants from Japan who had settled in the United States, and she grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. During World War II, Embrey and her family were forcibly removed fr...")
05:37, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Frank Chuman (Created page with "Frank Seishi Chuman was a Japanese American author, civil rights activist, and community leader. He was born on March 18, 1921, in Los Angeles, California, and died on July 31, 2017. Chuman grew up in a Japanese American community in Los Angeles, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a degree in political science. After the outbreak of World War II, Chuman and his family were among the approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans w...")
05:28, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Category:Presidential Medal of Freedom (Created page with "The '''Presidential Medal of Freedom''' is the highest civilian award of the United States, along with the Congressional Gold Medal. It is an award bestowed by the president of the United States to recognize people who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." The award is not limited to U.S. citizens and, while it is a civilian awa...")
05:27, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Gordon Hirabayashi (Created page with "Gordon Hirabayashi was a Japanese American who became known for his resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II. He was born on April 23, 1918, in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in a family of farmers. Hirabayashi attended the University of Washington, where he studied sociology and became involved in civil rights activism. During World War II, he refused to comply with the forced removal and internment of Japanese Americans, and instead, he cha...")
05:24, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Koji Ariyoshi (Created page with "'''Koji Ariyoshi''' was a pioneering journalist, writer, and civil rights activist who played a critical role in advancing the cause of Japanese American redress and human rights in the United States. Born on August 19, 1914, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Ariyoshi grew up in a family that placed a high value on education and social justice. After completing high school, Ariyoshi attended the University of Hawaii, where he earned a degree in English in 1936. He then went on to pu...")
05:20, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Guy Aoki (Created page with "'''Guy Aoki''' is a prominent Japanese American activist and media watchdog, best known for his work advocating for greater representation and diversity in the entertainment industry. Aoki was born on December 25, 1951, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to parents who were incarcerated in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II. Aoki grew up in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he ear...")
05:15, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Karl Ichiro Akiya (Created page with "Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909–2001) was a Japanese-American writer and activist for numerous political and social causes. A labor activist in both the United States and Japan, Akiya was also an intellectual figure in the Japanese-American community. Born in 1909 in San Francisco, California, Akiya spent the early years of his life in Japan, where he was first sent to receive an education at the age of six. Politically conscious since his student years, the staunchly leftist...")
05:10, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Steven Okazaki (Created page with "'''Steven Okazaki''' is an accomplished documentary filmmaker and writer, best known for his films about social justice issues and the experiences of Japanese Americans. He was born on April 7, 1950 in Venice, California, to parents who had been interned during World War II as part of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Okazaki began his career as a documentary filmmaker, exploring issues of race,...")
04:58, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Richard Aoki (Created page with "Richard Aoki was a prominent Japanese American civil rights activist who was born on November 20, 1938, in San Leandro, California. Aoki is best known for his work as a member of the Black Panther Party and his advocacy for social justice causes. Aoki was raised in a predominantly white neighborhood in San Leandro and faced discrimination and racism throughout his childhood. As a teenager, he became involved in the civil rights movement and joined the Afro-American Asso...")
04:55, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Patsy Mink (Created page with "'''Patsy Mink''' was a Japanese American politician and women's rights activist who was born on December 6, 1927, in Paia, Maui, Hawaii. She is best known for her trailblazing work as the first woman of color and first Asian American woman to serve in the United States Congress. Mink's political career began in the Hawaii State Legislature, where she served as a representative and senator from 1956 to 1964. She then became the first Asian American woman to be elected to...")
04:49, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Rocky Aoki (Created page with "'''Rocky Aoki''' was a Japanese American entrepreneur and founder of the popular Benihana restaurant chain. He was born on October 9, 1938, in Tokyo, Japan and later immigrated to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Aoki attended New York City Community College and studied restaurant management. In 1964, he opened the first Benihana restaurant in New York City, which quickly gained a reputation for its unique teppanyaki-style cooking and entertaining...")
04:43, 14 February 2023 Saren talk contribs created page Fred Korematsu (Created page with "'''Fred Korematsu''' was a Japanese American civil rights activist who was born on January 30, 1919, in Oakland, California. He is best known for his resistance to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, which led to a landmark Supreme Court case that helped to establish the civil rights of all Americans. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States government issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal...")