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(Topics List)A. Wallace Tashima - Atsushi Wallace Tashima is the third Asian American and first Japanese American in the history of the United States to be appointed to a United States Court of Appeals.
Adam Yamaguchi - Adam Yamaguchi is an American television correspondent and producer at Current TV, a cable network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore.
Adele Arakawa - Adele Arakawa is an American evening news anchor for NBC affiliate station KUSA-TV of Denver, Colorado.
Adney Y. Komatsu - Adney Yoshio Komatsu has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1975.
Adrian Tomine - Adrian Tomine, a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing graphic novel series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.
Ailes Gilmour - Ailes Gilmour was a Japanese American dancer who was one of the young pioneers of the American Modern Dance movement of the 1930s.
Akihiro Kanamori - Akihiro Kanamori is a Japan-born American mathematician.
Akira Endo (conductor) - Akira Endo is a Japanese-American conductor and music educator.
Akira Iriye - Akira Iriye is an historian of American diplomatic history especially United States-East Asian relations, and international issues.
Alan Arakawa - Alan M. Arakawa, Mayor of the County of Maui from 2002 to 2006.
Alan Muraoka - Alan Muraoka is an actor and theatre director who plays Alan, the current owner of Hooper's Store on the television show Sesame Street.
Alan Nakanishi - Alan Nakanishi was a Republican Assemblymember from California's 10th State Assembly district.
Albert Nozaki - Albert Nozaki, was born in Tokyo, Japan, was an Academy Award-nominated art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures.
Allan M. Ohata - Allan Masahuru Ohata was a soldier in the 100th Infantry Battalion who received the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration for valor in the United States military, for action in Cerasuolo, Italy...
Amy Hill - Amy Marie Hill is an American actress.
Amy Uyematsu - Amy Uyematsu is a Japanese-American poet.
Ann Curry - Ann Curry is an American television news journalist and news anchor on NBC's morning television program Today since May 1997 and host of Dateline NBC since May 2005.
Ann Kiyomura - Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi is a former professional tennis player.
Anthony W. Ishii - Anthony W. Ishii is a United States federal judge.
Apolo Anton Ohno - Apolo Anton Ohno is an American short track speed skating competitor and a five-time medalist in the Winter Olympics.
Apolo Ohno - Apolo Anton Ohno is an American short track speed skating competitor and a six-time medalist in the Winter Olympics.
Ariane Koizumi - Ariane Koizumi is known as a fashion model and actress.
Ariko Iso - Ariko Iso is an athletic trainer for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.
Arthur Okamura - Arthur Okamura was an American artist, working in screen printing, drawing and painting.
Asako Kozuki - Asako Kozuki is a Japanese American voice actress who was the voice of Princess Peach in Mario Kart 64 Mario Party and Mario Party 2.
Aya Sumika - Aya Sumika was born Aya Sumika Koenig on August 22, 1980 in Miami, Florida.
Barney F. Hajiro - Barney F. Hajiro, Military Medal is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Ben Kuroki - Ben Kuroki flew a total of 58 combat missions during World War II, and is the only Japanese-American in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of...
Ben Oda - Ben Oda was a Japanese–American comic strip letterer.
Bianca Ryan - Bianca Taylor Ryan is an American singer and guitarist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's America's Got Talent at age eleven.
Bill Hosokawa - William Kumpai Hosokawa was a Japanese American author and journalist who worked for 38 years at The Denver Post, before retiring as the editorial page editor from that particular paper in 1984.
Bob Hasegawa - Bob Hasegawa is the Washington State Representative for the 11th Legislative District, Position 2, since 2005.
Bob Kuwahara - Rokuro "Bob" Kuwahara was a Japanese-born animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s.
Brian Rikuda - Brian Rikuda is best known for winning the reality show, Ultimate Hustler, that aired on Black Entertainment Television.
Brian Tee - Brian Tee is an American actor.
Brian Tochi - Brian Keith Tochihara, better known as Brian Tochi, is an American actor, screenwriter, movie director and producer.
Bruce and Norman Yonemoto - Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto are two Los Angeles, CA - based video/installation artists of Japanese American heritage.
Bruce Yonemoto - Bruce Yonemoto is a Japanese-American multimedia artist.
Caroline Lufkin - Caroline Lufkin is an Uchina'a-born Lewchewan-American musician and younger sister of Japanese pop artist Olivia Lufkin.
Cary Joji Fukunaga - Cary Joji Fukunaga is an American film director, writer and cinematographer.
Chad Morton - Chad Akio Morton is a former American football running back and kick/punt returner in the National Football League.
Charles J. Pedersen - Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers.
Chieko N. Okazaki - Chieko Nishimura Okazaki was the first counselor to Elaine L. Jack in the Relief Society general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1990 to 1997.
Chrishell Stause - Terrina Chrishell Stause is an American soap opera actress from Draffenville, Kentucky.
Cindy Omatsu - Cynthia Ann “Cindy” Omatsu is a Japanese-American black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under senior instructor Rigan Machado and Leka Vieira.
Cynthia Kadohata - Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American writer known for Newbery Medal.
Cyril Takayama - Cyril Takayama is an illusionist of Ryukyuan and French descent.
Dale Furutani - Dale Furutani is the first Asian American to win major mystery writing awards.
Dale Ishimoto - Dale Ishimoto was an American actor of Japanese descent.
Dale Minami - Dale Minami is a San Francisco-based lawyer best known for heading the legal team that overturned the wrongful conviction of Fred Korematsu, whose defiance of the World War II Japanese American ...
Dan Kwong - Dan Kwong is an American performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist.
Dan the Automator - Daniel M. Nakamura, better known as Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is a Japanese-American hip hop producer.
Daniel Okimoto - Daniel I. Okimoto is a Japanese-American academic and political scientist.
Daniella Alonso - Daniella Alonso is an American actress known for her guest appearances as Anna Taggaro on The CW television series One Tree Hill and her lead roles in The Hills Have Eyes 2 and Wrong T...
Danny Lee Clark - Danny Lee "Nitro" Clark is an American athlete, television personality, actor, and producer.
Darrell Hamamoto - Darrell Hamamoto is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis who is best known for his views on the desexualization of Asian American males in the media.
Daryn Okada - Daryn Okada, A.S.C. is a cinematographer and the current president of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Dave Tatsuno - Dave Tatsuno was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in his family's internment camp during World War II. His footage was later compiled into the film Topaz.
Dean Cain - Dean Cain is an American actor, known for his role as Clark Kent/Superman in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
Derek Mio - Derek Mio is an American film and TV actor.
Desmond Nakano - Desmond Nakano is an American film director, screenwriter, film score composer, and actor.
Diane Suzuki - Diane Suzuki was a nineteen-year old dancer and student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who disappeared on July 6, 1985, and has since been the focus of one of the most notorious modern cri...
Dina Eastwood - Dina Ruiz Eastwood is a news anchor for KSBW-TV in the Salinas valley and Monterey peninsula area of central California.
DJ Heavygrinder - DJ Heavygrinder is a model/disk jockey of Japanese and European descent.
Dorinne K. Kondo - Dorinne K. Kondo is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California.
Doris Matsui - Doris Okada Matsui is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represents in the United States House of Representatives.
Doris Muramatsu - Girlyman is an American folk-rock band formerly based in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, now based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Earl I. Anzai - Earl I. Anzai served as Attorney General of Hawaii from 1999 to 2002, appointed by Governor of Hawaii Benjamin J. Cayetano.
Eddie Townsend - Edward "Eddie" Townsend was an American professional boxing trainer.
Edwin M. Yamauchi - Dr. Edwin Maseo Yamauchi is a Japanese-American historian, Christian apologist, editor and academic.
Eilis Flynn - Eilis Flynn, is a American author of four fantasy romance novels for the publisher, Cerridwen Press.
Ellison Onizuka - Ellison Shoji Onizuka was a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the...
Emily Kuroda - Emily Kuroda is best known for her role as Mrs.
Erv Kanemoto - Erv Kanemoto is known as a World Champion motorcycle mechanic and motorcycle race team owner.
Ethel Azama - Ethel Azama was an American jazz and popular singer and recording artist.
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto - The Japanese autobiographer and novelist Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto was born 1874 in the province Echigo in Japan daughter of a karō from Nagaoka.
Evelyn Kawamoto-Konno - Evelyn Tokue Kawamoto-Konno was an American swimmer.
Frank H. Ono - Frank H. Ono was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Fred Armisen - Fred Armisen is an American actor, comedian, and musician, best known for his work as a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
Fred Korematsu - Toyosaburo Fred Korematsu was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President F...
Gajin Fujita - Gajin Fujita is a graffiti artist from East Los Angeles.
Garrett Hongo - Garrett Hongo is a Japanese American poet.
Gary A. Tanaka - Gary A. Tanaka is a Japanese-American businessman who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investments in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar.
Gary Kimura - Gary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft.
Gary Okihiro - Gary Y. Okihiro is an Asian American author and scholar.
Gen Fukunaga - Gen Fukunaga is the founder and president of FUNimation Entertainment, a company that distributes anime in the United States and Canada.
George Ariyoshi - George Ryoichi Ariyoshi, served as the third Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986.
George I. Fujimoto - George I. Fujimoto was an American chemist of Japanese descent.
George I. Nakamura - George Itsuo Nakamura was a Nisei and Japanese-American, a lieutenant in the United States Army during World War II, and recipient of the Bronze Star.
George Ishiyama - George Ishiyama was a Japanese-American businessman who was president of Alaska Pulp Corporation in Sitka, Alaska between 1983 and 2003.
George Nakano - George Nakano served as a California State Assemblyman from 1998 until 2004.
George Shima - George Shima was a Japanese American businessman in California who became the first Japanese American millionaire.
George Sugihara - George Sugihara is a theoretical biologist who has worked across a wide variety of fields, including landscape ecology, algebraic topology, algal physiology and paleoecology, neurobiology, atmos...
George T. Sakato - George T. Sakato is a former United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
George T. Tamura - George T. Tamura is a Japanese American artist.
George Takei - George Hosato Takei Altman is a Japanese American actor, best known for his role in the television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise.
George Tsutakawa - George Tsutakawa, sculptor and painter, was born in Seattle, Washington.
Glen Fukushima - Glen Fukushima is a Japanese American business leader and former public servant.
Glen Murakami - Glen Murakami has worked on several television programs, most notably for the DC Animated Universe.
Gordon H. Sato - Dr. Gordon Hisashi Sato, Ph.D. is an American cell biologist who first attained prominence for his discovery that polypeptide factors required for the culture of mammalian cells outside the body...
Gordon Hirabayashi - Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi is an American sociologist, best known for his principled resistance to the Japanese American internment during World War II, and the court case which bears his name, ...
Graham Watanabe - Graham Watanabe is an American snowboarder who has competed since 1996.
Grant Imahara - Grant Masaru Imahara is an American electronics and radio control buff, best known for his work on the American television show MythBusters.
Greg Kasavin - Gregory A. Kasavin is the former site director and executive editor at the gaming website GameSpot.
Greg Watanabe - Greg Watanabe is an American actor who played Isaac on the MyNetworkTV serial Watch Over Me.
Guy Aoki - Guy Aoki is the head and co-founder of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans.
Gyo Obata - Gyo Obata is a significant American architect, the son of renowned painter Chiura Obata.
Harajuku Girls - The Harajuku Girls are four young Japanese and American-Japanese back up dancers featured in stage shows and music videos for Gwen Stefani during her solo pop/dance-record phase.
Harold Sakata - Toshiyuki "Harold" Sakata was a Japanese American professional wrestler and film actor most famous for his role as the villain "Oddjob" in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
Harry Fujiwara - Harry Fujiwara is an American former professional wrestler and manager, best known by his ring name Mr. Fuji.
Harry K. Fukuhara - Colonel Harry K. Fukuhara is a retired United States Army soldier who was inducted in the United States Military Intelligence Hall of Fame in 1988.
Harvey Itano - Harvey Akio Itano is an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases.
Hawayo Takata - Hawayo Hiromi Takata, a Japanese-American born in Hanamaulu, Territory of Hawaii, introduced Reiki to the Western World.
Hayley Kiyoko - Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft is a Japanese American actress and singer best known for playing Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins.
Henry Hajimu Fujii - Henry Fujii was a pioneer and Japanese American community leader in the state of Idaho.
Hideo Sasaki - Hideo Sasaki was an influential American landscape architect.
Hikaru Nakamura - Hikaru Nakamura, is an American chess Grandmaster and the current United States Chess Champion.
Hiro Narita - Hiro Narita, A.S.C. a Japanese American cinematographer, was born June 26, 1941 in Seoul, South Korea.
Hiroaki Aoki - Hiroaki Aoki, known in the United States by the Anglicized name Rocky Aoki, was a founder of the Benihana chain of "Japanese Steakhouse" restaurants, wrestler, thrillseeker, and entrepreneur.
Hiroshi H. Miyamura - Corporal Hiroshi H. Miyamura is a Medal of Honor recipient awarded for his actions during the Korean War on 24 and April 25, 1951 near Taejon-ni, Korea while serving in the United States Army, 7...
Hiroshi Kashiwagi - Hiroshi Kashiwagi is a Nisei poet, playwright and actor.
Hiroto Hirashima - Hiroto "Hiro" Hirashima, of Kaneohe, Hawaii, was a Japanese-American who was pivotal in obtaining equal rights and privileges for his fellow Japanese-American bowlers, as well as other minoriti...
Hisako Terasaki - Hisako Terasaki, was a Japanese American etcher.
Ian Anthony Dale - Ian Anthony Dale is an American actor.
Iris Yamashita - Iris Yamashita is an Academy Award-nominated Japanese-American screenwriter.
Isamu Noguchi - Isamu Noguchi was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.
Iva Toguri D'Aquino - Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, was an American citizen who participated in English-language propaganda broadcast transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War I...
Iwao Takamoto - Iwao Takamoto was an Japanese-American animator, television producer, and film director.
Izumi Shimada - Izumi Shimada is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale with research interests in the archaeology of complex pre-Hispanic cultures in the Andes, t...
Jack Soo - Jack Soo was a Japanese American actor.
Jadagrace Berry - Jadagrace Berry is an American child actress and is aspiring singer and dancer, attending Debbie Allen's Dance Academy and the Gary Spatz Acting Conservatory.
Jake Zemke - Jake Zemke is a professional motorcycle road racer of partial Japanese ancestry.
James Fukai - James Fukai is a guitarist with the band Trust Company.
James Hiroyuki Liao - James Hiroyuki Liao is an American television, film and theatre actor.
James Iha - James Yoshinobu Iha born March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. is an American rock musician.
James K. Okubo - James K. Okubo was a United States Army soldier and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II.
James Otsuka - Katsuki James Otsuka was a Nisei Japanese American Quaker who was jailed as a conscientious objector during World War II, and later became a war tax resister.
James Shigeta - James Shigeta is an American film and television actor.
Jan Jeffcoat - Jan Jeffcoat is a morning news anchor at WFLD-TV in Chicago.
Jane Yamamoto - Jane Yamamoto has been a general assignment reporter at KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles since 1996.
Janice Kawaye - Janice Kawaye is a Japanese American actress, notable for providing the voice of Jenny "XJ-9" Wakeman on My Life as a Teenage Robot, Ami on Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Sarah on Invader Zim,...
Japanese American - Japanese Americans are Americans of Japanese heritage, either born in Japan or their descendents.
Japanese American service in World War II - During the early years of World War II, Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes in the Pacific coast states because military leaders and public opinion combined to fan...
Japantown - Japantown is a common name for official Japanese communities in big cities outside Japan.
Jeanne Sakata - Jeanne Sakata is an American film, television and stage actress and playwright.
Jeff Kashiwa - Jeff Kashiwa is a smooth jazz saxophonist native to Seattle who made his start as a member of popular fusion jazz group The Rippingtons.
Jeff Matsuda - Jeff Matsuda is a Japanese-American concept artist, comics artist, and animator.
Jerry Ito - Jerry Ito was a Japanese-American film and television actor, specializing in Japanese films throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Jhene - Jhene, is an American pop/R&b singer.
Jimmy Murakami - Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami,, is a Japanese American animator and director with a long career working in numerous countries.
Jodi Long - Jodi Long is an American actress.
Joe Hayashi - Joe J. Hayashi was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Joe M. Nishimoto - Private First Class Joe M. Nishimoto was a member of the highly decorated 442nd Regimental Combat Team which served in the European theater during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the ...
Joey Miyashima - Joey Miyashima is a Japanese American television and film actor.
John F. Aiso - John F. Aiso was an accomplished American Nisei military leader and a distinguished lawyer and judge.
John Maeda - John Maeda is a Japanese-American graphic designer, computer scientist, university professor, and author.
John Okada - John Okada was a Japanese-American writer.
Johnnie Morton - Johnnie James Morton, Jr. is a former NFL wide receiver.
Johnny Kitagawa - Johnny Hiromu Kitagawa, born is the founder and former president of Johnny & Associates, a production agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan.
Jon Moritsugu - Jon Moritsugu is an American underground filmmaker.
Jonathan Tisdall - Jonathan D. Tisdall is a grandmaster of chess and works as a freelance journalist.
Joshua Harris - Joshua Eugene Harris is an American pastor and author, perhaps most widely known for I Kissed Dating Goodbye, a book that advocates what the author believes is a biblical approach to dating ...
Jun Fujita - Jun Fujita born Junnosuke Fujita was an Issei Japanese American, or first generation American of Japanese ancestry who was born in a village near Hiroshima, Japan.
Junko Chodos - JUNKO CHODOS is a contemporary Japanese-American artist residing in the United States.
Kane Kosugi - Kane Kosugi born Takeshi Kosugi in Los Angeles, California is a Japanese-American martial artist and martial arts actor.
Kaoru Moto - Kaoru Moto was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Karen Kamon - Karen Ichiuji-Ramone, known by her stage name, Karen Kamon, is a singer and actress best known for her performance of "Manhunt" on the soundtrack to the movie, Flashdance.
Karen Narasaki - Karen K. Narasaki is a nationally renowned civil rights leader and human rights activist.
Karen Tei Yamashita - Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California, Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer and Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches cr...
Karyn Kusama - Karyn Kusama is an American film director and screenwriter.
Kayo Hatta - Kayo Hatta was an Asian American filmmaker, writer, and community activist.
Kazuo Otani - Kazuo Otani was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Keiiti Aki - Keiiti Aki was a professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seismologist, author and mentor.
Keiko Agena - Christine Keiko Agena is a Japanese American actress.
Keiko Bonk - Keiko Cecilia Bonk is an American activist, artist, musician and politician working in the state of Hawaii.
Keith Cooke - Keith Hirabayashi Cooke is an American martial artist, actor and an occasional stuntman.
Ken and Miye Ota - Ken Ota and Miye Ota are a married couple known for teaching martial arts, ballroom dancing, and social graces at their “cultural school” located in Goleta, California.
Ken Eto - Ken Eto, also known as Tokyo Joe and "The Jap", was a Japanese-American mobster with the Chicago Outfit and eventually a FBI informant who ran Asian gambling operations for the organization.
Ken Narasaki - Ken Narasaki is a Sansei playwright and actor.
Ken Ono - Ken Ono is an American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Ken Uston - Ken Uston was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack.
Kenji Yoshino - Kenji Yoshino is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law.
Kenneth P. Moritsugu - Kenneth P. Moritsugu is an American physician and public health administrator.
Kenneth Yasuda - Kenneth Yasuda, a Japanese-American scholar and translator.
Kent Matsuoka - Kent Matsuoka is an American born independent producer and location manager of Japanese descent.
Kent Ninomiya - Kent Ninomiya is the first male Asian American broadcast journalist to be a primary news anchor of a television station in the United States.
Keo Nakama - Keo Nakama was an American swimmer whose career included a world record 20:29 in the mile swim, Big Ten Conference titles at Ohio State, and numerous national and international victories.
Kevin Asano - Kevin Yoshimi Asano is a retired judoka from the United States, who won the silver medal in the men's extra-lightweight competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Kim Miyori - Kim Miyori is an American actress.
Kiyo A. Matsumoto - Kiyo A. Matsumoto is a district judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Kiyoshi K. Muranaga - Kiyoshi K. Muranaga was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya - Kiyoshi Kuromiya was an author and civil and social justice advocate.
Kylee (singer) - Kylee is a Japanese American singer, originating from Arizona, United States.
Kyrie Maezumi - Kyrie Mimi Maezumi is an American actress and musician of Russian, British and Japanese descent.
Lance Ito - Lance Allan Ito is an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding decision during the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
Lane Nishikawa - Lane Nishikawa is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright and performance artist.
Larry Shinoda - Lawrence Kiyoshi Shinoda was a noted automotive designer who was best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang.
Lee Tonouchi - Lee Tonouchi is a Hawaiʻi born writer and editor, sometimes referred to as "Da Pidgin Guerilla" because of his strong advocacy of Pidgin.
Lena Yada - Lena Yada is a Japanese-American model, actress, Professional tandem surfer, and Professional wrestler, who is known for working for World Wrestling Entertainment as a backstage interviewer, val...
Lieko English - Lieko English is an American model and actress.
Lisa Marie Scott - Lisa Marie Scott is an American model and actress.
Lisa Onodera - Lisa Onodera is an American independent film producer, of such noted films as Picture Bride, The Debut and Americanese.
Lon Horiuchi - Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi, is a 1976 West Point graduate and U.S. FBI HRT sniper who was involved in controversial deployments during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff and 1993 Waco Siege.
Lou Diamond Phillips - Lou Diamond Phillips is an Filipino American film, television, and stage actor.
Mako Iwamatsu - Mako Iwamatsu, born was a Japanese-American actor.
Makoto Fujimura - Makoto Fujimura, a 21st Century Contemporary Artist, studied extensively in the U.S. during the 1980s and 90’s, graduating with a B.A. from Bucknell University.
Makoto Hagiwara - Baron Makoto Hagiwara was a Japanese American immigrant and landscape designer responsible for the creating and maintaining the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Califor...
Mari Matsuda - Mari J. Matsuda is an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law.
Marie Eguro - Marie Eguro, also credited as Mari Eguro, born January 13, 1972 in North Carolina is an American actress, musician and model.
Marie Helvin - Marie Helvin is a former model.
Marie Matiko - Marie Matiko is an Asian–American actress.
Marié Digby - Marié Christina Digby mar-ee-AY DIG-bee; born April 16, 1983 is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist.
Mary Yamashiro Otani - Mary Yamashiro Otani was a Richmond, California community activist.
Masanori Mark Christianson - Masanori Mark Christianson is a Japanese American musician, art director, copywriter, visual artist and model.
Masato Nakae - Masato Nakae was a private in the United States Army who served with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment during World War II. He was one of 22 Americans of Japanese descent awarded the...
Masatsugu Suzuki - Masatsugu Sei Suzuki is a Japanese-American physicist.
Masi Oka - Masi Oka is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor, as well as a digital effects artist.
Meiko - Meiko, is an American singer/songwriter, born and raised in Roberta, Georgia and currently residing in Los Angeles, California.
Meiling Melançon - Meiling Melançon also known as Mei Melançon, is an American actress and former fashion model.
Merle Dandridge - Merle Dandridge is an American actress who was born in Okinawa, Japan.
Michael Toshiyuki Uno - Michael Toshiyuki Uno is a film and television director, credited with directing television programs such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, China Beach, The Outsiders, Early Edition,...
Michiko Kakutani - Michiko Kakutani is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times and is considered by many to be a leading literary critic in the United States.
Michio Kaku - Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist.
Miiko Taka - Miiko Taka is a Nisei Japanese American actress best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara.
Mika Arisaka - Mika Arisaka is a Japanese-American singer and vocalist.
Mika Horiuchi - Mika Kazuo Horiuchi, A Japanese-American born on April 22, 1986 in Seattle, Washington, is the current bass guitar player for North American heavy metal band Cellador.
Mika Seeger - Mika Seeger is an American ceramic artist of Rhode Island.
Mike Kojima - Mike Kojima is a long-time editor of Sport Compact Car, Nissan Performance Magazine, Turbo and High-Tech Performance, Project Car and Import Tuner magazines.
Mike Masaoka - Mike Masaru Masaoka was born in Fresno, California.
Mike Okamoto - Mike Okamoto is an American comic book artist and commercial illustrator best known for his award-winning work on Marvel Comics' Atomic Age; as a prominent "good girl art" cartoonist; and as...
Mike S. Miller - Mike S. Miller is a comic book illustrator and writer who currently resides in San Diego, California.
Mikio Hasemoto - Mikio Hasemoto was a soldier in United States Army who received the Medal of Honor in World War II during actions in Cerasuolo, Italy.
Milton K. Ozaki - Milton K. Ozaki, born in Racine, Wisconsin from a Japanese father and an American mother, Augusta Rathbun, was a journalist, a reporter and a beauty parlor operator.
Milton Murayama - Milton Murayama is an American Nisei novelist and playwright.
Minoru Yamasaki - Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect of Japanese descent, best known for his design of the twin towers of the World Trade Center buildings 1 and 2.
Mitsuye Yamada - Mitsuye Yamada is a Japanese American activist, feminist, essayist, poet, story writer, editor, and former professor of English.
Monday Michiru - Monday Michiru Sipiagin is a Japanese American actress, singer, and songwriter whose music encompasses and fuses a wide variety of genres including jazz, dance, pop, and soul.
Money Mark - Mark Ramos-Nishita aka Money Mark is a producer and musician who has collaborated with the Beastie Boys many times.
Myles Kovacs - Myles Kovacs is an American entrepreneur and co founder of automotive magazine DUB, founded in 2000.
Nagao Sakurai - Nagao Sakurai of the Imperial Palace of Tokyo is a landscape architect.
Naoko Funayama - Naoko Funayama is a Japanese American sportscaster who currently serves as a rinkside reporter for Boston Bruins games on NESN.
Naomi Iizuka - Naomi Iizuka is a playwright.
Nigahiga - Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi are Japanese-American comedians from Hilo, Hawaii.
Nobu McCarthy - Nobu McCarthy was a Japanese Canadian actress, stage director, and former fashion model.
Olivia Lufkin - Olivia Lufkin, often known simply as Olivia is a bilingual Japanese singer-songwriter.
Pat Morita - Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an American actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on Happy Days and as Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated ...
Pat Saiki - Patricia Fukuda "Pat" Saiki is an American politician and former school teacher from Hilo in the State of Hawai'i.
Patrick Kenji Takahashi - Patrick Kenji Takahashi is an American biochemical engineer and popular science writer.
Patrick Lew - Patrick Allan Lew is an American musician, Internet personality and artist.
Paul Bannai - Paul T. Bannai is an American politician who was the first Japanese American to ever serve in the California State Legislature.
Paul Chihara - Paul Seiko Chihara is an American composer.
Paul Mayeda Berges - Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter and director.
Paul Tanaka - Paul K. Tanaka. Mayor, City of Gardena.
Paul Terasaki - Paul Ichiro Terasaki is a noted scientist in the field of human organ transplant technology and Professor Emeritus of Surgery at UCLA School of Medicine.
Paula A. Nakayama - Paula A. Nakayama of Honolulu, Hawaii is Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court.
Peter Westbrook - Peter Westbrook is an American sabre fencing champion.
Philip Kan Gotanda - Philip Kan Gotanda is an American playwright and filmmaker.
Rachel Rhodes (singer) - Rachel Rhodes, born on April 15, 1993 in North Carolina, United States, is a Japanese-American model and singer associated with the virtual band Genki Rockets.
Ray Yoshida - Raymond "Ray" Kakuo Yoshida was a Chicago artist known for his paintings and collages, and a teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1959 to 2005.
Rea Tajiri - Rea Tajiri is a Japanese American video artist and filmmaker.
Reiko Aylesworth - Reiko Aylesworth is an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her work on the television series 24 as Michelle Dessler.
Reiko Sato - Reiko Sato was an American dancer and actress.
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Ricky Steamboat - Richard Henry Blood, better known by his ring name Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, is an American professional wrestler who became one of the most well-known professional wrestlers of the la...
Robert A. Nakamura - Robert Akira Nakamura is a pioneering filmmaker and teacher, sometimes referred to as "the Godfather of Asian American media."
Robert Hamada (professor) - Robert Hamada is the Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and former Dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Robert Kinoshita - Robert Kinoshita is an artist, art director, and set and production designer who worked in the American film and television industries from the 1950s through the early 1980s.
Robert Murase - Robert Murase was a world renowned landscape architect.
Robert T. Hoshibata - Robert Tsugio Hoshibata is an American Bishop of The United Methodist Church, elected in 2004.
Robert T. Kuroda - Robert T. Kuroda was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Robert Taira - Robert Taira was the founder of King's Hawaiian bakery.
Rodney J. T. Yano - Rodney Jamus Takahashi Yano was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Rodney Kageyama - Rodney Kageyama is an American stage, film and TV actor.
Roger Shimomura - Roger Shimomura is an American artist and a retired professor at the University of Kansas.
Ronald Phillip Tanaka - Ronald Phillip Tanaka was a Japanese-American poet and editor.
Ronald Takaki - Ronald Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author.
Roxana Saberi - Roxana Saberi is an Iranian-Japanese American journalist who was arrested in Iran in January 2009.
Ruth Asawa - Ruth Asawa is a Japanese American sculptor.
Ruth Ozeki - Ruth Ozeki is a Japanese American novelist and filmmaker.
Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi - Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi are Japanese-American comedians from Hilo, Hawaii.
Ryuzo Yanagimachi - Ryuzo Yanagimachi is a pioneer in the cloning field.
S. Hata Building - Sadanosuke Hata was a Japanese businessman who built a historic structure called the S. Hata Building in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1912.
S. I. Hayakawa - Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-American academic and political figure of Japanese ancestry.
Sab Shimono - Sab Shimono is an American actor.
Sachi Koto - Sachi Koto was a news anchor on CNN Headline News for 16 years, usually during weekend evenings, until her contract expired in July 2005.
Sadao Munemori - Sadao S. Munemori was a posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor, after he sacrificed his life to save those of his colleagues at Seravezza, Italy during the closing stages of World War II. Mu...
Saemi Nakamura - Saemi Nakamura is a Japanese American actress.
Sam K. Shimabukuro - Sam Koyei Shimabukuro is one of only two Japanese Americans to have been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Sam Mitani - O. Sam Mitani is a Japanese-American writer and author, best known for his work as International Editor for Road & Track magazine.
Sanoe Lake - Sànoe Lake is an American actress of Hawaiian, Japanese and English descent.
Sara Tanaka - Sara Tanaka is an American film actress.
Sayaka Matsumoto - Sayaka Matsumoto is a Japanese-born American judoka.
Scott Oki - Scott Oki is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations.
Sean Lennon - Sean Taro Ono Lennon is an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist and actor.
Seishiro Okazaki - Seishiro "Henry" Okazaki was a Japanese American healer, martial artist, and founder of Danzan Ryu jujitsu.
Sen Katayama - Sen Katayama, born Yabuki Sugataro, was an early member of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japan Communist Party.
Sessue Hayakawa - Sessue Hayakawa was an Academy Award-nominated Japanese and American Issei actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films.
Shane Victorino - Shane Patrick Victorino is an outfielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Shigemi "Eddie" Hagihara - Edward Shigemi Hagihara is an aikido instructor in New York.
Shin Koyamada - Shin Koyamada, born on March 10, 1982 in Okayama, Japan is a film actor, producer, philanthropist, entrepreneur and martial arts instructor.
Shinyei Nakamine - Shinyei Nakamine was a soldier in the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army who received the United States' highest decoration for valor - The Medal of Honor, for actions in La Torr...
Shiro Kashiwa - Shiro Kashiwa was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Shizuko Hoshi - Shizuko Hoshi is an American actress and theatre director living in Southern California.
Shizuya Hayashi - Shizuya Hayashi was a soldier in the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army who was awarded the Medal of Honor for actions in Cerasuolo, Italy during World War II. He distinguished h...
Sho Yano - Sho Timothy Yano is an Asian-American genius child prodigy with an estimated IQ 200.
Soji Kashiwagi - Soji Kashiwagi is a Sansei journalist, playwright and producer.
Sono Osato - Sono Osato is an American dancer and actress of half-Japanese, half Caucasian descent.
Sophia Danenberg - Sophia Danenberg is an American mountain climber best known as the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.
Sophie Tamiko Oda - Sophie Tamiko Oda is a Japanese American actress.
Stacy Kamano - Stacy Lee Kamano is an American television actress, best known for her role on Baywatch Hawaii.
Stan Matsunaka - Stanley Toshi Matsunaka is a former Democratic member of the State Senate of the U.S. state of Colorado, serving from 1995 to 2003.
Stan Sakai - Stan Sakai is a third-generation Japanese American, Eisner Award-winning comic book creator.
Stephen K. Yamashiro - Stephen Kei Yamashiro was the mayor of Hawaii County from 1992 until 2000.
Steven Maeda - Steven Maeda is an American television writer and producer.
Steven Okazaki - Steven Okazaki is an American filmmaker.
Sueo Serisawa - Sueo Serisawa was a Japanese American who became an important modernist of the Los Angeles school.
Susumu Ohno - Susumu Ohno, was an Asian American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and seminal researcher in the field of molecular evolution.
Suzy Nakamura - Susan Aiko Nakamura is an American actress.
Tadao Tomomatsu - Tadao Tomomatsu is an actor living in the Los Angeles, California area.
Tadashi Wakabayashi - Tadashi Henry Wakabayashi was a professional baseball player from Oahu, Hawaii.
Tadashi Yamashita - Tadashi Yamashita is an American martial arts instructor and actor.
Tak Toyoshima - Tak Toyoshima is an Asian American art director with the Weekly Dig and the author of the comic strip Secret Asian Man.
Takayo Fischer - Takayo Fischer is an American stage, film and TV actress, as well as voice-over actress and singer.
Takeo Uesugi - Takeo Uesugi is a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations.
Takeshi Amemiya - Takeshi Amemiya is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.
Takeshi Utsumi - Takeshi Utsumi is a dedicated former Fulbright Scholar who has, for some decades, devoted himself to experimenting with and demonstrating the technology that can bring needed learning, health ca...
Takuji Yamashita - Takuji Yamashita, born in Yawatahama on Ehime, Shikoku, Japan, was a civil-rights campaigner.
Tamlyn Tomita - Tamlyn Naomi Tomita is a Japanese American actress, who has appeared in many Hollywood films and television series.
Tanisha Harper - Tanisha Mariko Harper is a model, actress and television host.
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Taro Yashima - Taro Yashima was the pseudonym of Atsushi Iwamatsu, a Japanese artist.
Tatsuya Ishida - Tatsuya Ishida is the author of the webcomic Sinfest.
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Teru Shimada - Teru Shimada, was an acclaimed Japanese-American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice.
Teruto Tsubota - Teruto "Terry" Tsubota is a second-generation Japanese-American, or Nisei, from Hawaii, who was credited with saving hundreds of Japanese lives while serving as a Military Intelligence Servi...
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Tetsuo Ochikubo - Tetsuo Ochikubo, also known as Bob Ochikubo, was a Japanese-American painter and printmaker who was born in Waipahu, Honolulu county, Hawaii.
Thomas Noguchi - Thomas T. Noguchi is a former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, who served in that position from 1967 to 1982.
Tim Toyama - Tim Toyama is a playwright and producer.
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Tod H. Mikuriya - Tod Hiro Mikuriya was a psychiatrist and an advocate for the legalization of the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
Tomo Yasuda - Tomo Yasuda is a Japanese-American electronic musician, who is based out of San Francisco.
Tony Sano - Tony Sano, a Japanese-American born in Tokyo, was the multi-talented host of ABC's I Survived a Japanese Game Show season 1.
Toshia Mori - Toshia Mori was a Japanese born actress, who had a brief career in American films during the 1930s.
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese American jazz pianist, composer/arranger and bandleader.
Toyotaro Miyazaki - Master Toyotaro Miyazaki is the Head of the International Shotokai Federation.
Tsuru Aoki - Tsuru Aoki was a popular Japanese-American stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s.
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Violet Kazue de Cristoforo - Violet Kazue de Cristoforo was a Japanese American poet and composer of haiku.
Wakako Yamauchi - Wakako Yamauchi is a Nisei Asian American female writer.
Wally Kaname Yonamine - Wallace Kaname Yonamine, also known as Wally Yonamine, is a former multi-sport American athlete who played in the National Football League and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Walter Oi - Walter Yasuo Oi is the Elmer B. Milliman Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
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William K. Nakamura - William Kenzo Nakamura was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
Yamato Ichihashi - Yamato Ichihashi was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States.
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Yeiki Kobashigawa - Yeiki Kobashigawa was a soldier in United States Army who received the Medal of Honor in World War II during actions near Lanuvio, Italy.
Yoichiro Nambu - Yoichiro Nambu is a Japanese-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago.
Yoky Matsuoka - Yoky Matsuoka is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow.
Yoshiko Uchida - Yoshiko Uchida was a Japanese American writer.
Yosihiko H. Sinoto - Yosihiko H. Sinoto is a Japanese-born American anthropologist at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Yuji Ichioka - Yuji Ichioka, was an American historian best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies.
Yuji Okumoto - Yuji Don Okumoto is an American actor.
Yuki Shimoda - Yuki Shimoda was an American actor best known for his starring role as Ko Wakatsuki in the NBC movie of the week, "Farewell to Manzanar" in 1976.
Yukio Okutsu - Yukio Okutsu was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.
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Yuriko Yamaguchi (sculptor) - Yuriko Yamaguchi is a Japanese-American sculptor.
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