List of Japanese Americans

This is a list of Japanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, but not Japanese nationals living or working in the US. ^[1]

599 relations: A Perfect Circle, A. Wallace Tashima, ABC News, Academy Awards, Adney Y. Komatsu, Adrian Tomine, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, Aki Kurose, Akihiro Kanamori, Akira Iriye, Alan Muraoka, Alan Nakanishi, Albert Saijo, Alex Shibutani, Alice Sae Teshima Noda, Allan M. Ohata, Allen K. Ono, America's Best Dance Crew, America's Best Dance Crew (season 3), America's Got Talent, American Me, American Pastime, American Society of Cinematographers, American Theatre Wing, Americanese, Ann Curry, Ann Harada, Anne Akiko Meyers, Apolo Ohno, Apple Inc., Ariane Koizumi, Arthur Okamura, Asa Akira, Ashima Shiraishi, Asia Carrera, Associate Justice, Atlee Hammaker, Avenue Q, Avery Fisher Prize, Ayako Ishigaki, Badlands (American band), Ballroom dance, Baltimore Ravens, Barney F. Hajiro, Barney Miller, Be Like Water, Ben Kamihira, Ben Kuroki, Benihana, Bianca Ryan, ..., Big Hero 6: The Series, Bill Hosokawa, Bill Naito, Black Panther Party, Blake Oshiro, Bob Hasegawa, Bob Kuwahara, Bob Matsui, Boston Marathon, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Brandon League, Breeders' Cup, Brian Tochi, Bruce Lee, Bruce Yamashita, Bryan Clay, Bryan Iguchi, Carolina Panthers, Carrie Ann Inaba, Cary Fukunaga, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, CBS News, Charles J. Pedersen, Chess, Chevrolet Corvette, Child prodigy, Chiura Obata, Chris Tashima, Christian Hosoi, Cinderella (band), Cinematographer, Clarence K. Nishihara, Clearwater Festival, Clyde Kusatsu, CNN, Colleen Hanabusa, Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, Corey Gaines, Corey Nakatani, Cynthia Kadohata, Cyril Takayama, Dale Furutani, Dan Kwong, Dan White (magician), Daniel Inouye, Daniel M. Tani, Daniella Alonso, Darwin Barney, Daryn Okada, Dave Tatsuno, David Ige, David Mura, David Ono, Day One (TV series), Dean Cain, Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, Derek Mio, Derek Tatsuno, Desmond Nakano, Devon Aoki, Dina Eastwood, Director of the National Security Agency, Discovery Channel, Don Henrie, Don Wakamatsu, Don Wilson (kickboxer), Dorinne K. Kondo, Doris Matsui, Dwight Takamine, East West Players, Ehren Watada, Ellison Onizuka, Emily Kuroda, Enka, ER (TV series), Eric Sato, Eric Shinseki, Erik Shoji, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Evelyn Kawamoto, Far East Movement, Farewell to Manzanar, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Flower Drum Song, Flower Drum Song (film), Ford Konno, Ford Mustang, Foreign-born Japanese, Francis Fukuyama, Frank H. Ono, Fred Katayama, Fred Korematsu, Fujita scale, Gardena, California, Gary A. Tanaka, Gateway, Inc., Gedde Watanabe, General authority, George Ariyoshi, George I. Fujimoto, George Kuwa, George Matsumoto, George Nakano, George Nakashima, George Nozuka, George Shima, George T. Sakato, George Takei, George Tsutakawa, Gilmore Girls, Girlyman, Glen Fukushima, Glen Murakami, Golden Globe Award, Goldfinger (film), Goldsea, Gordon H. Sato, Gordon Hirabayashi, Gracie Films, Grant Imahara, Grateful Crane Ensemble, Greek (TV series), Gregg Araki, Gregg Takayama, Guy Kawasaki, Hapa, Harold Sakata, Harry B. Harris Jr., Haruki Nakamura, Harvard University, Harvey Itano, Hashime Murayama, Hashimoto-san, Hayley Kiyoko, Head Start (program), Henry Hajimu Fujii, Hermina Morita, Hideo Date, Hideo Noda, Hikaru Nakamura, Hikaru Sulu, Hiro Narita, Hiro Yamamoto, Hiroaki Aoki, Hiroshi H. Miyamura, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Hiroto Hirashima, Hisaye Yamamoto, Hokuto "Hok" Konishi, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hoobastank, Hooper's Store, Ian Anthony Dale, Idaho, Internment of Japanese Americans, Iraq War, Iris Yamashita, Isami Doi, Isamu Noguchi, Issei, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Iwao Takamoto, J-Melo, J-pop, Jack Soo, Jake E. Lee, Jake Shimabukuro, James Hiroyuki Liao, James Iha, James K. Okubo, James Omura, James Sakamoto, James Shigeta, Jani Iwamoto, Janice Kawaye, Japanese Americans, Jay Kochi, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Jeff Imada, Jeff LaBar, Jeff Matsuda, Jeremy Guthrie, Jero, Jhené Aiko, Jill N. Tokuda, Joe Hayashi, Joe Inoue, Joe M. Nishimoto, John Lennon, John Maeda, John Matsudaira, John Okada, Joseph Heco, Julie Otsuka, Jun Fujita, Justin Nozuka, Kan'ichi Asakawa, Kane Kosugi, Kaoru Moto, Karen Fukuhara, Karen Narasaki, Karyn Kusama, Kawika Shoji, Kayo Hatta, Kazuo Otani, Keiiti Aki, Keiko Agena, Keiko Matsui, Ken and Miye Ota, Ken Narasaki, Ken Ono, Ken Uston, Kenjiro Nomura (artist), Kenneth P. Moritsugu, Kent Matsuoka, Kent Nagano, Kent Ninomiya, Keo Nakama, Kevin Tsujihara, Ki Society, Kim Miyori, Kinji Shibuya, Kiyoshi K. Muranaga, Kobe Tai, Koichi Fukuda, Korean War, Korematsu v. United States, Kristi Yamaguchi, Kurt Suzuki, Kyle Larson, Kylee, Kyoko Ina, Lance Ito, Lane Nishikawa, Larry Shinoda, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Lawson Fusao Inada, Lenn Sakata, Letters from Iwo Jima, Liane Sato, Lieutenant general (United States), Lieutenant governor, Lily Mariye, Lincoln Kanai, Linda Wong (pornographic actress), Lindsey Yamasaki, Linkin Park, Lisa Onodera, List of henchmen of James Bond villains, List of Japanese people, List of Korean Americans, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Luna H. Mitani, MacArthur Fellows Program, Mackenyu, Mad Mad House, Maia Shibutani, Maile Shimabukuro, Mako (actor), Malcolm X, Manzanar, Mari Matsuda, Marié Digby, Marie Eguro, Mark Takai, Mark Takano, Marlon Brando, Martial arts, Maryanne Ito, Masato Nakae, Masi Oka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Matt Heafy, Mazie Hirono, Meiko (American singer), Melody (Japanese singer), Merrill's Marauders, Michael K. Nagata, Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Michi Weglyn, Michiko Kakutani, Michio Kaku, Microsoft, Midori (violinist), Miiko Taka, Mike Honda, Mike Lum, Mike Shinoda, Miki Gorman, Miki Ishikawa, Mikio Hasemoto, Mila J, Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, Miné Okubo, Minoru Yamasaki, Mirai Nagasu, Miyoshi Umeki, Mizuko Ito, MythBusters, Nadia Azzi, Naomi Iizuka, National Academy of Sciences, National Football League, NBC News, New York City Marathon, NHK World-Japan, Nick Sakai, Nina Akamu, Nippon Professional Baseball, Nisei, No-No Boy, Nobu Matsuhisa, Nobu McCarthy, Nobutaka Ike, Norman Mineta, North American Post, NPR, Nyogen Senzaki, O. J. Simpson, Okinawa Prefecture, Olivia Lufkin, Order of the Rising Sun, Order of the Sacred Treasure, Ozzy Osbourne, Pacific Citizen, Pacific Overtures, Pat Morita, Pat Suzuki, Patsy Mink, Patti Yasutake, Paul Horiuchi, Paul Igasaki, Paul M. Nakasone, Paul Tanaka, Paula A. Nakayama, Pete Rouse, Philip Kan Gotanda, Philip Nozuka, Picture Bride (film), President pro tempore of the United States Senate, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Princess Peach, Pulitzer Prize, Quincy, M.E., Rachael Yamagata, Rafu Shimpo, Rea Tajiri, Reiko Sato, Rena Inoue, Rex Walters, Richard Aoki, Richard Sakai, Rickie Fowler, Rob Mayeda, Robert A. Nakamura, Robert Hamada (professor), Robert Ito, Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi, Robert Murase, Robert Swift, Robert T. Hoshibata, Robert T. Kuroda, Rodney J. T. Yano, Rodney Kageyama, Roger Yasukawa, Ronald Takaki, Roxana Saberi, Roy I. Sano, Roy Kusumoto, Roy Matsumoto, Russell S. Kokubun, Ruth Asawa, Ruth Ozeki, Ryan Higa, Ryan Potter, Ryo Okumoto, Ryu Goto, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, S. I. Hayakawa, Sab Shimono, Sachi Koto, Sadao Munemori, Sally Amaki, Sam K. Shimabukuro, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Renaissance, Sanji Abe, Sansei, Santa J. Ono, Sara Tanaka, Satoshi Hino, Sayonara, Scooby-Doo, Scott Oki, Scott Saiki, Scott Sassa, Sean Lennon, Seattle, Seiji Ozawa, Sesame Street, Sessue Hayakawa, Seventy (LDS Church), Shane Victorino, Sharon Tomiko Santos, Shin Koyamada, Shinyei Nakamine, Shizuko Hoshi, Shizuya Hayashi, Sho Kosugi, Sho Yano, Shogo Kubo, Shoji Tabuchi, Shuji Nakamura, Shuko Akune, Shusaku Arakawa, Sinfest, Sixteen Candles, Soji Kashiwagi, Solectron, Sophie Oda, Sotaro, Soul music, Soundgarden, Spark Matsunaga, Spock's Beard, St. Elsewhere, Stan Matsunaka, Stan Sakai, Stanford University, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Static-X, Steere Noda, Stephanie (singer), Steve Aoki, Steven Okazaki, String field theory, STS-51-L, Sue Kunitomi Embrey, Sueo Serisawa, Sun-Sentinel, Supreme Court of Hawaii, Surgeon General of the United States, Susan K. Mashiko, Susumu Ohno, Suzy Nakamura, Syfy, Synchromism, Tadd Fujikawa, Taitetsu Unno, Tak Fujimoto, Takashi Ono (mathematician), Takayo Fischer, Takeshi Amemiya, Takeshi Fuji, Takeshi Utsumi, Takuji Yamashita, Taky Kimura, Tamlyn Tomita, Taro Yashima, Technology evangelist, Ted Fujita, Ted T. Tanouye, Teiko Nishi, Teppei Teranishi, Terry Teruo Kawamura, Terrytoons, Teruhisa Matsusaka, The Cats of Mirikitani, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Debut, The Denver Post, The New York Times, The Sand Pebbles (film), The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Smashing Pumpkins, The Ugly American, The White Man's Burden, Theoretical physics, Thomas Sakakihara, Thrice, Today (U.S. TV program), Tokyo Rose, Tom Gorai, Tommy Kono, Tony Sano, Toshi Seeger, Toshihiro Oshiro, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Toshiko Takaezu, Toyo Suyemoto, Travis Ishikawa, Tricia Takasugi, Tritia Toyota, Trivium (band), Tsuru Aoki, Tsutomu Shimomura, U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Umi Garrett, United Methodist Church, United States Cyber Command, United States Pacific Fleet, United States presidential line of succession, United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, United States Secretary of Transportation, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, University of British Columbia, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of Cincinnati, Usagi Yojimbo, Utada Hikaru, Vampire, Vietnam War, Vincent Okamoto, Visas and Virtue, Visual Communications, Wakako Yamauchi, Wake Me When It's Over, Wally Yonamine, Warren Furutani, Wataru Misaka, Wayne Inouye, WCAU, Webcomic, William K. Nakamura, William Saito, World Trade Center (1973–2001), World War II, Yale University, Yamato Ichihashi, Yeiki Kobashigawa, Yoichiro Nambu, Yoko Ono, Yoky Matsuoka, Yonsei (Japanese diaspora), Yoshi Oyakawa, Yoshiko Uchida, YouTuber, Yuji Ichioka, Yuji Okumoto, Yuki Shimoda, Yukio Okutsu, Yuna Ito, Yuri Kochiyama, Yvonne Elliman, Zen, 22/7 (idol group). Expand index (549 more) » « Shrink index

A Perfect Circle

A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan.

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Atsushi Wallace Tashima (born June 24, 1934) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adney Y. Komatsu

Adney Yoshio Komatsu (August 2, 1923 – February 23, 2011) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1975 until his death.

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Adrian Tomine

Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.

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Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (born August 5, 1925) is a political activist who played a major role in the Japanese American redress movement.

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Aki Kurose

Aki Kurose (1925–1998) was an American teacher and social-justice activist who helped establish Washington state's first Head Start program and worked to increase access to education and affordable housing, particularly among low-income and minority families.

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Akihiro Kanamori

is a Japanese-born American mathematician.

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Akira Iriye

(born October 20, 1934) is a historian of American diplomatic history, especially United States–East Asian relations, and international issues.

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Alan Muraoka

Alan Muraoka (born August 10, 1962) is a Japanese American actor and theatre director who plays Alan, the current owner of Hooper's Store, on the television show Sesame Street.

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Alan Nakanishi

Alan S. Nakanishi, M.D., (b. March 21, 1940) is an American politician.

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Albert Saijo

Albert Fairchild Saijo (February 4, 1926 – June 2, 2011) was a Japanese-American poet associated with the Beat Generation.

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Alex Shibutani

Alex Hideo Shibutani (born April 25, 1991) is an American ice dancer.

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Alice Sae Teshima Noda

Alice Sae Teshima Noda (July 28, 1894 – July 25, 1964) was an American businesswoman, a dental hygienist and beauty industry entrepreneur in Hawaii and Tokyo.

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Allan M. Ohata

Allan Masaharu Ohata (September 13, 1918 – October 17, 1977) was a United States Army soldier.

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Allen K. Ono

Allen Kenji Ono (December 31, 1933 – August 1, 2016) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army.

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America's Best Dance Crew

America's Best Dance Crew, often abbreviated as ABDC, is an American competitive dance reality television series that features both national and international dance crews.

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America's Best Dance Crew (season 3)

The third season of America's Best Dance Crew premiered on January 15, 2009.

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America's Got Talent

America's Got Talent (often abbreviated as AGT) is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global Got Talent franchise.

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American Me

American Me is a 1992 American biographical crime drama film produced and directed by Edward James Olmos, his first film as a director, and written by Floyd Mutrux and Desmond Nakano.

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American Pastime

American Pastime is the fourteenth album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1976.

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American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), founded in 1919, is an educational, cultural, and professional organization.

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American Theatre Wing

The American Theatre Wing, "the Wing" for short, is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement.

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Americanese

Americanese is a 2006 film by Eric Byler based on the novel American Knees by Shawn Wong, concerning the relationships of a man and woman of Asian descent in the United States.

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Ann Curry

Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist, and photojournalist.

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Ann Harada

Ann Harada (born February 3, 1964) is an American New York-based actress who is best known for the musical Avenue Q, in which she originated the role of Christmas Eve, the heavily accented Japanese therapist.

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Anne Akiko Meyers

Anne Akiko Meyers (born May 15, 1970) is an American concert violinist who performs as soloist and recitalist.

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Apolo Ohno

Apolo Anton Ohno (born May 22, 1982) is a retired American short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist (two gold, two silver, four bronze) in the Winter Olympics.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Ariane Koizumi

Ariane Koizumi (born March 7, 1963) is an American fashion model and actress, often just credited as Ariane). Koizumi grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, and later modeled for numerous top designers, including Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons and Jean Paul Gaultier. She appeared in Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and other top publications and worked in the runways of Paris, Rome, Milan, Tokyo and other fashion centers worldwide. In 1985, she starred in Michael Cimino's film Year of the Dragon, in which she played the role of Chinese-American television reporter Tracy Tzu, who falls in love with the fanatical cop Stanley White, played by Mickey Rourke. For this role, she was nominated for two Razzie Awards. Koizumi subsequently had a cameo in Abel Ferrara's King of New York. She is of Japanese and Dutch parentage.

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Arthur Okamura

Arthur Okamura (February 24, 1932 - July 10, 2009) was an American artist, working in screen printing, drawing and painting.

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Asa Akira

Asa Akira (born January 3, 1986) is an American pornographic actress and adult film director.

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Ashima Shiraishi

Ashima Shiraishi (born April 3, 2001 in New York, NY) is an American rock climber.

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Asia Carrera

Asia Carrera Lemmon (born Jessica Steinhauser, August 6, 1973) is an American former pornographic actress.

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Associate Justice

Associate Justice or Associate Judge is the title for a member of a judicial panel who is not the Chief Justice in some jurisdictions.

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Atlee Hammaker

Charlton Atlee Hammaker (born January 24, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher who played the majority of his career for the San Francisco Giants, from 1982 to 1990.

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Avenue Q

Avenue Q is an American musical in two acts, conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who wrote the music and lyrics.

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Avery Fisher Prize

The Avery Fisher Prize is an award given to American musicians for outstanding achievement in classical music.

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Ayako Ishigaki

was an issei journalist.

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Badlands (American band)

Badlands was a band founded by former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee and former Black Sabbath members Ray Gillen and Eric Singer.

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Ballroom dance

Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world.

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Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Barney F. Hajiro

Barney Fushimi Hajiro (September 16, 1916 – January 21, 2011) was an American combat veteran of World War II who received the Medal of Honor, the highest United States military award for valor.

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Barney Miller

Barney Miller is an American sitcom set in a New York City Police Department police station on East 6th St in Greenwich Village.

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Be Like Water

Be Like Water (2008) is a play written by Dan Kwong, originally produced at East West Players, in association with Cedar Grove OnStage.

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Ben Kamihira

Ben Kamihira (1925-2004) was a Japanese-American artist and long-time teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

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Ben Kuroki

Ben Kuroki (May 16, 1917 – September 1, 2015) was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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Benihana

is an American restaurant company based in Aventura, Florida.

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Bianca Ryan

Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1, 1994) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Big Hero 6: The Series

Big Hero 6: The Series is an American animated television series, produced by Disney Television Animation and developed by Kim Possible creators Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley.

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Bill Hosokawa

William Kumpai Hosokawa (January 30, 1915 – November 9, 2007) was a Japanese American writer and journalist.

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Bill Naito

William Sumio Naito (September 16, 1925 – May 8, 1996) was a noted businessman, civic leader and philanthropist in Portland, Oregon, U.S. He was an enthusiastic advocate for investment in downtown Portland, both private and public, and is widely credited for helping to reverse a decline in the area in the 1970s through acquiring and renovating derelict or aging buildings and encouraging others to invest in downtown and the central city.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.

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Blake Oshiro

Blake Oshiro (born January 16, 1970) is an American politician and lawyer.

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Bob Hasegawa

Robert Alan Hasegawa (born September 22, 1952) is a member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 11th Legislative District since January 2013.

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Bob Kuwahara

Rokuro "Bob" Kuwahara (August 12, 1901 – 1964) was a Japanese-born American animator best known for his work with Walt Disney and Terrytoons between the 1930s and 1960s.

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Bob Matsui

Robert Takeo Matsui (September 17, 1941 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician from the state of California.

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Boston Marathon

The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Brandon League

Brandon Paul League (born March 16, 1983) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent.

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Breeders' Cup

The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I Thoroughbred horse races, operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982.

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Brian Tochi

Brian Tochi or Brian Keith Tochi (born Brian Keith Tochihara, born May 2, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, entrepreneur, and filmmaker.

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Bruce Lee

Lee Jun-fan (November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973), known professionally as Bruce Lee, was a Hong Kong and American actor, film director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, philosopher, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do, one of the wushu or kungfu styles.

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Bruce Yamashita

Bruce I. Yamashita is a Japanese American lawyer and a former officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.

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Bryan Clay

Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay (born January 3, 1980) is an American decathlete.

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Bryan Iguchi

Bryan Iguchi (born 1973) is a professional snowboarder.

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Carolina Panthers

The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Carrie Ann Inaba

Carrie Ann Inaba (born January 5, 1968) is an American dancer, choreographer, television dance competition judge, actress, game show host, and singer.

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Cary Fukunaga

Cary Joji Fukunaga (born July 10, 1977) is an American film director, writer, and cinematographer.

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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

is an American actor, sports physiologist, martial artist, and stuntman of Japanese descent.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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Charles J. Pedersen

Charles John Pedersen (October 3, 1904 – October 26, 1989) was an American organic chemist best known for describing methods of synthesizing crown ethers.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Chevrolet Corvette, known colloquially as the Vette or Chevy Corvette, is a sports car manufactured by Chevrolet.

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Child prodigy

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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Chiura Obata

was a well-known Japanese-American artist and popular art teacher.

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Chris Tashima

Christopher Inadomi "Chris" Tashima (born March 24, 1960) is a Japanese American actor and director.

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Christian Hosoi

Christian Rosha Hosoi (born October 5, 1967) is an American professional skateboarder.

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Cinderella (band)

Cinderella was an American rock band formed in 1982 from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Clarence K. Nishihara

Clarence K. Nishihara is a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the state's 18th district since his appointment in 2004.

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Clearwater Festival

The Clearwater Festival (officially The Great Hudson River Revival) is a music and environmental summer festival and America’s oldest and largest annual festival of its kind.

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Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is an American actor of Japanese descent.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Colleen Hanabusa

Colleen Wakako Hanabusa (Japanese: 花房コリーン若子, Hepburn: Hanabusa Korīn Wakako; born May 4, 1951) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative from, since 2016, previously holding the position from 2011 to 2015.

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Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was a group of nine people appointed by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066 (1942), related orders during World War II, and their effects on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands.

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Corey Gaines

Corey Yasuto Gaines (born June 1, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player and coach of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Corey Nakatani

Corey S. Nakatani (born October 21, 1970 in Covina, California, United States) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Cynthia Kadohata

Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005.

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Cyril Takayama

Cyril Takayama (born September 27, 1973) is an American magician of Japanese, French, and Moroccan descent.

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Dale Furutani

Dale Furutani (born December 1, 1946, in Hilo, Hawaii) is the first Asian American to win major mystery writing awards.

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Dan Kwong

Dan Kwong is an American performance artist, writer, teacher and visual artist.

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Dan White (magician)

Daniel White is an American magician, producer, and creative consultant.

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Daniel Inouye

was a United States Senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012.

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Daniel M. Tani

Daniel M. Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut.

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Daniella Alonso

Daniella Alonso (born September 22, 1978) is an American actress and fashion model known for her roles on the NBC shows Revolution as Nora Clayton and Friday Night Lights as Carlotta Alonso.

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Darwin Barney

Darwin James Kunane Barney (born November 8, 1985) is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent.

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Daryn Okada

Daryn Okada, A.S.C. (born January 2, 1960) is a cinematographer and the former president of the American Society of Cinematographers.

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Dave Tatsuno

Dave Tatsuno (born Masaharu Tatsuno August 18, 1913 – January 26, 2006, in California) was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in his family's internment camp during World War II.

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David Ige

David Yutaka Ige (born January 15, 1957) is an American politician serving as the 8th and current Governor of Hawaii since 2014.

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David Mura

David Mura (born 1952) is an American author, poet, novelist, playwright, critic and performance artist.

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David Ono

David Ono is an Asian American filmmaker and news anchor for KABC-TV Channel 7 in Los Angeles, California.

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Day One (TV series)

Day One was a planned NBC sci-fi television movie—originally a television series pilot—about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure.

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Dean Cain

Dean George Tanaka (born July 31, 1966), better known as Dean Cain, is an American actor, producer, writer, director, and television show host.

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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Densho is a nonprofit organization based in Seattle, Washington, which collects video oral histories and documents regarding Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II.

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Derek Mio

Derek Mio (born 1982) is an American film and TV actor.

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Derek Tatsuno

Derek Shizuo Tatsuno (born 1958) is a former baseball pitcher.

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Desmond Nakano

Desmond Nakano (born 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, film score composer, and actor.

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Devon Aoki

Devon Aoki (born 1982) is an American actress and fashion model.

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Dina Eastwood

Dina Eastwood (born Dina Marie Ruiz; July 11, 1965) is an American reporter and TV news anchor.

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Director of the National Security Agency

The Director of the National Security Agency (DIRNSA) is the highest-ranking official of the National Security Agency, which is a Defense Agency within the U.S. Department of Defense.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American pay television channel that is the flagship television property of Discovery Inc., a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Don Henrie

Don Henrie, also known as "The Vampire Don", is likely known for his role in the short-lived SyFy reality show Mad Mad House, which first aired March 4, 2004.

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Don Wakamatsu

Wilbur Donald Wakamatsu (born February 22, 1963) is an American former professional baseball player, scout, manager and current coach.

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Don Wilson (kickboxer)

Don "The Dragon" Wilson (born September 10, 1954) is an American 11-time professional kickboxing world champion who scored 47 knockouts in four decades, a European Martial Arts Hall of Famer and an action film actor.

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Dorinne K. Kondo

Dorinne K. Kondo is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California.

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Doris Matsui

Doris Okada Matsui (born September 25, 1944) is the U.S. Representative for.

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Dwight Takamine

Dwight Y. Takamine (born January 29, 1953) is an Okinawan-American Hawaii state senator and state representative (1984–2007).

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East West Players

East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1965.

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Ehren Watada

Ehren Keoni Watada (born 1978) is a former First Lieutenant of the United States Army, best known as the first commissioned officer in the US armed forces to refuse to deploy to Iraq, in June 2006.

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Ellison Onizuka

was an American astronaut from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. He was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.

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Emily Kuroda

Emily Kuroda (born October 30, 1952) is an American actress.

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Enka

is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically.

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ER (TV series)

ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist and medical doctor Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994, to April 2, 2009, with a total of 331 episodes spanning over 15 seasons.

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Eric Sato

Eric Anthony Sato (born May 5, 1966 in Santa Monica, California) is a former American volleyball player, who was a member of the United States men's national volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

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Eric Shinseki

Eric Ken Shinseki (born November 28, 1942) is a retired United States Army general who served as the seventh United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2009–2014).

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Erik Shoji

Erik Thomas Shoji (born August 24, 1989) is an American volleyball player, a member of United States men's national volleyball team and Italian club Taiwan Excellence Latina, NORCECA Champion 2013, gold medalist of the 2014 World League and 2015 World Cup.

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Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

, also known as Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, was a Japanese autobiographer and novelist.

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Evelyn Kawamoto

Evelyn Tokue Kawamoto (September 17, 1933 – January 22, 2017), also known by her married name Evelyn Konno, was an American competition swimmer and two-time Olympic medalist.

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Far East Movement

Far East Movement (abbreviated FM) is an American hip hop and electronic music group based in Los Angeles.

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Farewell to Manzanar

Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 American coming-of-age comedy film written, co-produced, and directed by John Hughes, and co-produced by Tom Jacobson.

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Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Flower Drum Song (film)

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Ford Konno

Ford Hiroshi Konno (born January 1, 1933) is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in three events.

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Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang is an American car manufactured by Ford.

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Foreign-born Japanese

A is a Japanese person of foreign descent or heritage, who was born outside Japan and later acquired Japanese citizenship.

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Francis Fukuyama

Yoshihiro Francis "Frank" Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and author.

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Frank H. Ono

Frank H. Ono (June 5, 1923 – May 6, 1980) 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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Fred Katayama

Frederick Hiroshi Katayama (born February 18, 1960) is a Japanese American television journalist, currently working as a news anchor for Reuters Television.

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Fred Korematsu

was an American civil rights activist who objected to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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Fujita scale

The Fujita scale (F-Scale), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.

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Gardena, California

Gardena is a city located in the South Bay (southwestern) region of Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Gary A. Tanaka

Gary A. Tanaka (born June 23, 1943, in Hunt, Idaho) is a Japanese-American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar.

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Gateway, Inc.

Gateway Inc. was an American computer hardware company based in South Dakota and later California, that developed, manufactured, supported, and marketed a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories.

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Gedde Watanabe

Gedde Watanabe (born Gary Watanabe, June 26, 1955) is an American actor and comedian.

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General authority

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a general authority is a member of the highest levels of leadership in the church who has administrative and ecclesiastical authority over the church.

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George Ariyoshi

George Ariyoshi (born as) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the third Governor of Hawaii from 1974 to 1986.

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George I. Fujimoto

George Iwao Fujimoto (born July 1, 1920) is an American chemist of Japanese descent.

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George Kuwa

George Kuwa (7 April 1885 – 13 October 1931) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) film actor of the silent era.

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George Matsumoto

George Matsumoto (July 16, 1922 – June 28, 2016) was a Japanese-American architect and educator who is known for his Modernist designs.

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George Nakano

George Nakano (born 1935) served as a California State Assemblyman from 1998 until 2004.

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George Nakashima

George Katsutoshi Nakashima (中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement.

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George Nozuka

George Nozuka (born April 28, 1986 in New York City) is a Canadian-American R&B singer of mixed Caucasian and Japanese descent.

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George Shima

George Shima (1864 – March 27, 1926) was a Japanese American businessman in California who became the first Japanese American millionaire.

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George T. Sakato

George Taro "Joe" Sakato (February 19, 1921 – December 2, 2015) was an American combat soldier of World War II who received the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award for valor.

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George Takei

George Hosato Takei (born Hosato Takei, April 20, 1937) is an American actor, director, author, and activist.

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George Tsutakawa

George Tsutakawa (February 22, 1910 – December 18, 1997) was an American painter and sculptor best known for his avant-garde bronze fountain designs.

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Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls is an American comedy-drama television series, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel.

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Girlyman

Girlyman was an American folk-rock band formerly based in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, later based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Glen Fukushima

Glen Shigeru Fukushima (born 1949) is an American business leader and former public servant.

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Glen Murakami

Glen Murakami (born July 27, 1968) is a Japanese American animator, animation director, and producer.

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Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign.

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Goldfinger (film)

Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Goldsea

Goldsea.com is a large, fully featured magazine site.

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Gordon H. Sato

Gordon Hisashi Sato (17 December 1927 – 31 March 2017) was an American cell biologist who first attained prominence for his discovery that polypeptide factors required for the culture of mammalian cells outside the body are also important regulators of differentiated cell functions and of utility in culture of new types of cells for use in research and biotechnology.

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Gordon Hirabayashi

was 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, Hirabayashi v. United States.

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Gracie Films

Gracie Films is a California-based film and television production company, created by James L. Brooks in 1986.

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Grant Imahara

Grant Masaru Imahara (born October 23, 1970) is an American electrical engineer, roboticist, and television host.

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Grateful Crane Ensemble

The Grateful Crane Ensemble is a non-profit 501(c)(3) Asian American theatre company based in Southern California, established in July, 2001.

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Greek (TV series)

Greek (typographically stylized as GRΣΣK) is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC Family from July 9, 2007, to March 7, 2011.

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Gregg Araki

Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker involved heavily with New Queer Cinema.

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Gregg Takayama

Gregg Takayama (born 1952 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives since January 16, 2013, representing District 34.

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Guy Kawasaki

Guy Takeo Kawasaki (born August 30, 1954) is an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist.

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Hapa

Hapa is a term for a person of mixed ethnic heritage.

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Harold Sakata

, born was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor.

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Harry B. Harris Jr.

Harry Binkley Harris Jr. (born August 4, 1956) is a retired admiral in the United States Navy who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to South Korea.

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Haruki Nakamura

Haruki Robert Nakamura (born April 18, 1986) is a former American football safety.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvey Itano

Harvey Akio Itano (November 3, 1920 – May 8, 2010) was an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases.

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Hashime Murayama

Hashime Murayama (1879–1954) was a Japanese American painter.

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Hashimoto-san

Hashimoto-san was an animated Japanese mouse created by the Japanese-born animator Bob Kuwahara for the Terrytoons animation company.

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Hayley Kiyoko

Hayley Kiyoko Alcroft (born April 3, 1991) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, and director.

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Head Start (program)

Head Start is a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides comprehensive early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.

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Henry Hajimu Fujii

Henry Fujii (August 17, 1886 – November 2, 1976) was a pioneer and Japanese American community leader in the state of Idaho.

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Hermina Morita

Hermina 'Mina' Morita (born September 2, 1954), is an adviser for the Hawaii State House Committee on Finance.

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Hideo Date

Hideo Date (January 5, 1907 – January 6, 2005) was a Japanese-born American painter active from the 1930s to the 1980s, known for combining elements of Japanese nihonga with American Synchromism.

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Hideo Noda

Hideo Noda (July 15, 1908 - January 12, 1939), also known as Hideo Benjamin Noda and Benjamin Hideo Noda, was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist, member of the "Shinseisakka" (ja:新制作協会) movement in Japan, student of Arnold Blanch, and uncle of Japanese printmaker Tetsuya Noda, as well as alleged communist spy recruited by Whittaker Chambers.

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Hikaru Nakamura

is a Japanese-American chess grandmaster.

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Hikaru Sulu

Hikaru Kato Sulu is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

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Hiro Narita

Hiro Narita (born June 26, 1941) is a Japanese-American cinematographer.

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Hiro Yamamoto

is an American bassist who was a founding member of grunge band Soundgarden, along with Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell in 1984.

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Hiroaki Aoki

, best known as Rocky Aoki, was a Japanese-born American wrestler and restaurateur who founded popular Japanese cuisine restaurant chain Benihana.

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Hiroshi H. Miyamura

Hiroshi H. "Hershey" Miyamura (born October 6, 1925) is a Japanese-American retired United States Army soldier and recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in the Korean War.

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Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Hiroshi Kashiwagi is a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) poet, playwright and actor.

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Hiroto Hirashima

Hiroto "Hiro" Hirashima (July 11, 1910 – November 23, 2007) was a Japanese American civil rights activist who was pivotal in obtaining equal rights and privileges for his fellow Japanese American bowlers, as well as other minorities, at a time when non-caucasians were ineligible for American Bowling Congress (ABC) membership.

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Hisaye Yamamoto

Hisaye Yamamoto (August 23, 1921 – January 30, 2011) was a Japanese American author.

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Hokuto "Hok" Konishi

Hokuto Konishi (born July 11, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan), also known as Hok or Hawk, is a member of the American hip-hop dance crew Quest Crew and was a finalist on the third season of the American reality television show So You Think You Can Dance.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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Hoobastank

Hoobastank (often stylized as h∞bastank, and originally known as Hoobustank) is an American rock band, formed in 1994 in Agoura Hills, California with lead singer Doug Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, drummer Chris Hesse, and original bassist Markku Lappalainen.

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Hooper's Store

Hooper's Store is a fictional business and meeting-place on the television show Sesame Street.

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Ian Anthony Dale

Ian Anthony Dale (born July 3, 1978) is an American actor.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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Iris Yamashita

Iris Yamashita is a Japanese-American screenwriter.

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Isami Doi

Isami Doi (May 12, 1903 – November 29, 1965) was an American printmaker and painter.

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Isamu Noguchi

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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Issei

is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there.

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Iva Toguri D'Aquino

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American who participated in English-language propaganda broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II on ''The Zero Hour'' radio show.

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Iwao Takamoto

Iwao Takamoto (April 29, 1925 – January 8, 2007) was a Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director.

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J-Melo

J-Melo is a weekly Japanese music television program broadcast by NHK.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Jack Soo

Jack Soo (October 28, 1917 – January 11, 1979) was a Japanese American actor.

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Jake E. Lee

Jake E. Lee (born February 15, 1957) is an American guitarist signed to Shrapnel Records.

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Jake Shimabukuro

Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976, in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American ukulele virtuoso and composer known for his fast and complex finger work.

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James Hiroyuki Liao

James Hiroyuki Liao is an American actor known for his roles as Jay Lee on Unforgettable and as Roland Glenn on Prison Break.

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James Iha

(born March 26, 1968) is a Japanese-American rock musician.

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James K. Okubo

James K. Okubo (May 30, 1920 – January 29, 1967) was a United States Army soldier.

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James Omura

James 'Jimmie" Yutaka Matsumoto Omura (November 17, 1912 – June 20, 1994) was the English language editor of the Rocky Shimpo newspaper in Denver, Colorado, during World War II.

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James Sakamoto

James Yoshinori "Jimmie" Sakamoto (March 22, 1903 – December 3, 1955) was a Japanese American journalist, boxer, and community organizer.

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James Shigeta

James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American film and television actor.

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Jani Iwamoto

Jani Iwamoto is a Democratic member of the Utah Senate, representing the 4th District since 2014.

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Janice Kawaye

Janice Kawaye (born April 4, 1970) is an American voice actress known for her roles as Ami in the cartoon Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi which aired on Cartoon Network in the mid-2000s, Jenny, the title character in My Life as a Teenage Robot and Gi in Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

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Japanese Americans

are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

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Jay Kochi

Jay Kazuo Kochi (1927–2008) was a physical organometallic chemist who held lectureship at Harvard University, and faculty positions at Case Institute of Technology, 1962-1969, (now Case Western Reserve University), Indiana University, 1969 to 1984, and the University of Houston, 1984 to 2008.

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Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (born September 26, 1934) is an American writer.

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Jeff Imada

Jeff Imada (born June 17, 1955) is an American martial artist, stuntman, actor and director.

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Jeff LaBar

Jeffrey Philip LaBar (born March 18, 1963, in Darby, Pennsylvania) is an American guitarist most famous for playing in the glam rock band Cinderella, in which he replaced original guitarist Michael Smerick, also known as Michael Kelly Smith.

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Jeff Matsuda

Jeff Matsuda (born 1970) is a Japanese-American concept artist, comics artist, and animator.

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Jeremy Guthrie

Jeremy Shane Guthrie (born April 8, 1979) is a former American professional baseball pitcher.

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Jero

Jerome Charles White, Jr. (born September 4, 1981), better known by his stage name, is an American enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent.

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Jhené Aiko

Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo (born March 16, 1988) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Jill N. Tokuda

Jill N. Tokuda is a Democratic member of the Hawaii Senate, representing the 24th District since 2006.

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Joe Hayashi

Joe J. Hayashi (August 14, 1920 – April 22, 1945) was a United States Army soldier.

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Joe Inoue

is an American rock musician signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Ki/oon Records label.

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Joe M. Nishimoto

Private First Class Joe M. Nishimoto (February 21, 1919 – November 15, 1944) was a United States Army soldier.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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John Maeda

John Maeda is an American executive, designer, technologist.

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John Matsudaira

John Takehisa Matsudaira (November 11, 1922 – January 30, 2007) was an American painter active mainly in Seattle, Washington from the 1940s through the 1970s.

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John Okada

John Okada (September 23, 1923 – February 20, 1971) was a Japanese American writer, who is considered to be the first Japanese American novelist.

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Joseph Heco

Joseph Heco (born September 20, 1837 – December 12, 1897) was the first Japanese person to be naturalized as a United States citizen and the first to publish a Japanese language newspaper.

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Julie Otsuka

Julie Otsuka is an award-winning Japanese American author.

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Jun Fujita

was an Issei photojournalist, photographer, silent film actor, and published poet in the United States.

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Justin Nozuka

Justin Tokimitsu Nozuka (born September 29, 1988) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter.

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Kan'ichi Asakawa

was a Japanese academic, author, historian, librarian, curator and peace advocate.

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Kane Kosugi

, is an American martial artist and martial arts actor of direct Japanese and Chinese descent.

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Kaoru Moto

Kaoru Moto (April 25, 1917 – August 26, 1992) was a United States Army soldier.

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Karen Fukuhara

Karen Fukuhara (born February 10, 1992) is an American actress.

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Karen Narasaki

Karen K. Narasaki (born April 4, 1958) is an American civil rights leader and human rights activist.

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Karyn Kusama

Karyn Kusama (born March 21, 1968) is an American independent film director known for the 2000 film Girlfight, which she wrote, directed, and produced.

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Kawika Shoji

Kawika Shoji (born November 11, 1987) is an American volleyball player, a member of United States men's national volleyball team and Italian club Gi Group Monza, gold medalist of the 2014 World League and 2015 World Cup.

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Kayo Hatta

Kayo Hatta (March 18, 1958 – July 20, 2005) was an Asian American filmmaker, writer, and community activist.

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Kazuo Otani

Kazuo Otani (June 2, 1918 – July 15, 1944) 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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Keiiti Aki

was a Japanese-American professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), seismologist, author and mentor.

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Keiko Agena

Christine Keiko Agena (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress known professionally as Keiko Agena.

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Keiko Matsui

, is a Japanese keyboardist and composer, specializing in smooth jazz, jazz fusion and new-age music.

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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.

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Ken Narasaki

Ken Narasaki (born April 4, 1958 in Seattle, Washington) is a Yonsei (fourth-generation Japanese American) playwright and actor.

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Ken Ono

Ken Ono (born 20 March 1968) is a Japanese-American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in integer partitions, modular forms, Umbral moonshine, and the fields of interest to Srinivasa Ramanujan.

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Ken Uston

Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack.

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Kenjiro Nomura (artist)

Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956) was a Japanese American painter.

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Kenneth P. Moritsugu

Kenneth P. Moritsugu (born March 5, 1945) is an American physician and public health administrator.

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Kent Matsuoka

Kent Matsuoka is an American born independent producer and location manager of Japanese (nisei) descent.

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Kent Nagano

Kent George Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator.

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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.

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Keo Nakama

Keo Nakama (May 21, 1920 – September 8, 2011) was an American swimmer.

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Kevin Tsujihara

Kevin Tsujihara (born October 25, 1964) is an American businessman serving as chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment.

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Ki Society

The is an aikido organization founded by Koichi Tohei in 1971, while he was the chief instructor at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo.

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Kim Miyori

Kim Miyori (born Cheryl Utsunomiya; January 4, 1951) is an American actress, best known for the role of Dr.

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Kinji Shibuya

Robert "Kinji" Shibuya (May 16, 1921 – May 3, 2010) was an American professional wrestler and actor.

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Kiyoshi K. Muranaga

Kiyoshi K. Muranaga (February 16, 1922 – June 26, 1944) 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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Kobe Tai

Kobe Tai (born January 15, 1972) is the stage name of a Taiwanese-born American former pornographic actress and adult model.

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Koichi Fukuda

Koichi Fukuda (born July 1, 1975 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese musician, best known as the former lead guitarist, programmer, and keyboardist for the industrial metal band Static-X. He was the former lead guitarist from Drugstore Fanatics.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Korematsu v. United States

Korematsu v. United States,, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.

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Kristi Yamaguchi

Kristine Tsuya Yamaguchi (born July 12, 1971) is an American former figure skater.

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Kurt Suzuki

, is an American professional baseball catcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Kyle Larson

Kyle Miyata Larson (born July 31, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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Kylee

Kylee Saunders (born May 25, 1994), better known mononymously as Kylee, is a Japanese American singer.

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Kyoko Ina

is a Japanese-American figure skater.

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Lance Ito

Lance Allan Ito (born August 2, 1950) is an American retired judge best known for presiding over the O.J. Simpson murder case while on the bench of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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Lane Nishikawa

Lane Nishikawa is an American actor, filmmaker, playwright and performance artist.

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Larry Shinoda

Lawrence Kiyoshi (Larry) Shinoda (March 25, 1930 – November 13, 1997) was a noted American automotive designer who was best known for his work on the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang.

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Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel has become a cult classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque, everyman style of prose.

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Lawson Fusao Inada

Lawson Fusao Inada (born 1938) is a Japanese American poet.

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Lenn Sakata

Lenn Haruki Sakata (坂田春樹 born June 8, 1954) is an American former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues primarily as a utility player from 1977 to 1987 and was a member of the Baltimore Orioles 1983 World Series Championship team.

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Letters from Iwo Jima

is a 2006 Japanese-American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya.

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Liane Sato

Liane Lissa Sato (born September 9, 1964 in Santa Monica, California) is a retired female volleyball player from the United States, who won the bronze medal with the USA National Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

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Lieutenant general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and the United States Air Force, lieutenant general (abbreviated LTG in the Army, Lt Gen in the Air Force, and LtGen in the Marine Corps) is a three-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-9.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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Lily Mariye

Lily Mariye is an American television director, filmmaker and actress.

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Lincoln Kanai

Lincoln Seiichi Kanai (1908–1982) was a social worker who was one of several Japanese Americans to bring a legal challenge against the exclusion of people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II.

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Linda Wong (pornographic actress)

Linda Wong (September 13, 1951 – December 7, 1987) was an American pornographic actress and one of the first Asians to become a star in the adult film industry.

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Lindsey Yamasaki

Lindsey Brooke Yamasaki (born June 2, 1980) is an American former professional women's basketball player.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.

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Lisa Onodera

Lisa Onodera is an American independent film producer, of such noted films as Picture Bride, The Debut and Americanese.

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List of henchmen of James Bond villains

The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorable villains and henchmen.

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List of Japanese people

This is a list of notable Japanese people.

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List of Korean Americans

The following is a list of notable Korean Americans, including original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

With 17,694 employees, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is the nation's largest Sheriff's Department.

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Louis Ozawa Changchien

Louis Ozawa Changchien (born October 11, 1975) is an American actor, best known for his role in the 2010 film Predators and 2012 The Bourne Legacy.

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Luna H. Mitani

Luna H. Mitani (born December 22, 1963, in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese-American artist.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Mackenyu

is a Japanese-American actor born in Los Angeles.

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Mad Mad House

Mad Mad House is a 2004 reality television series about a group of ten contestants competing for $100,000.

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Maia Shibutani

Maia Harumi Shibutani (born July 20, 1994) is an American ice dancer.

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Maile Shimabukuro

Maile S.L. Shimabukuro (born October 1, 1970), is a Democratic member of the Hawaii State Senate, representing the state's 21st district since her election in 2011.

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Mako (actor)

was a Japanese American actor, voice actor, and singer.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Manzanar

Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten American concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II from December 1942 to 1945.

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Mari Matsuda

Mari J. Matsuda (born 1956) is an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii.

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Marié Digby

Marié Christina Digby (born April 16, 1983) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist.

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Marie Eguro

, also credited as, (born January 13, 1972 in North Carolina) is an American actress, musician and model.

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Mark Takai

Kyle Mark Takai (July 1, 1967 – July 20, 2016) was an American politician from the state of Hawaii who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing, from 2015 to 2016.

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Mark Takano

Mark Allan Takano (born December 10, 1960) is an American politician who has been the United States Representative for California's 41st congressional district since 2013.

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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a number of reasons: as self-defense, military and law enforcement applications, mental and spiritual development; as well as entertainment and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Maryanne Ito

Maryanne Ito is an American soul singer, songwriter, and performer based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Masato Nakae

Masato Nakae (December 20, 1917 – September 4, 1998) was a Japanese American United States Army soldier.

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Masi Oka

(born December 27, 1974) is a Japanese-American actor, producer and digital effects artist.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Matt Heafy

Matthew Kiichi Heafy (born January 26, 1986) is a Japanese American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Trivium.

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Mazie Hirono

Mazie Keiko Hirono (Japanese name: 広野慶子, Hirono Keiko; born November 3, 1947) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Hawaii since 2013.

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Meiko (American singer)

Meiko is an American singer/songwriter.

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Melody (Japanese singer)

Melody Miyuki Ishikawa, (born February 24, 1982) (stylized melody.) is an American-born former Japanese pop singer and television host.

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Merrill's Marauders

Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II, or China-Burma-India Theater (CBI).

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Michael K. Nagata

Michael K. Nagata is a U.S. Army officer and lieutenant general.

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Michael Toshiyuki Uno

Michael Toshiyuki Uno is an American film and television director, credited with directing television programs such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (the remake series that began in 1985), China Beach, The Outsiders, Early Edition, and Dawson's Creek.

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Michi Weglyn

Michi Nishiura Weglyn (November 29, 1926 – April 25, 1999) was the author of the book Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, which fueled a movement leading to reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II.

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Michiko Kakutani

is an American literary critic and former chief book critic for The New York Times.

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Michio Kaku

Michio Kaku (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Midori (violinist)

who performs under the mononym Midori, is a Japanese-born American violinist.

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Miiko Taka

(born Miiko Shikata June 24, 1925), is a Japanese American actress best known for co-starring with Marlon Brando as Hana-ogi in the 1957 movie Sayonara.

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Mike Honda

Michael Makoto Honda (born June 27, 1941) is an American politician and former educator.

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Mike Lum

Michael Ken-Wai Lum (born October 27, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball player and coach.

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Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda (born February 11, 1977) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and graphic designer.

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Miki Gorman

Michiko Suwa "Miki" Gorman (August 9, 1935 – September 19, 2015) was an American marathoner of Japanese ancestry.

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Miki Ishikawa

Miki Ishikawa (born July 29, 1991) is an American actress and singer.

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Mikio Hasemoto

Mikio Hasemoto (July 13, 1916 – November 29, 1943) was a soldier in United States Army.

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Mila J

Jamila Akiko Aba Chilombo, known as Mila J, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and dancer.

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Military Intelligence Hall of Fame

The Military Intelligence Hall of Fame is a hall of fame established by the Military Intelligence Corps of the United States Army in 1988 to honor soldiers and civilians who have made exceptional contributions to military intelligence.

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Miné Okubo

Miné Okubo (first name pronounced MEE-NEH; June 27, 1912 – February 10, 2001) was an American artist and writer.

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Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912February 6, 1986) was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects.

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Mirai Nagasu

is an American figure skater.

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Miyoshi Umeki

Bernstein, Adam.

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Mizuko Ito

is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who is a Professor in Residence at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of California, Irvine.

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MythBusters

MythBusters is an Australian-American science entertainment television program created by Peter Rees and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions.

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Nadia Azzi

Nadia Azzi (born August 11, 1998 in Dunedin, Florida) is an American classical pianist of Lebanese-Japanese origin.

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Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka (born April 22, 1965) is a playwright.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Football League

The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC).

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC, formerly known as the National Broadcasting Company when it was founded on radio.

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New York City Marathon

The New York City Marathon (branded TCS New York City Marathon and formerly branded ING New York City Marathon for sponsorship reasons) is an annual marathon that courses through the five boroughs of New York City.

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NHK World-Japan

NHK World-Japan is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster.

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Nick Sakai

Nick Sakai is a Japan-born American actor and producer.

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Nina Akamu

Nina Akamu is a Japanese American artist who was born in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

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Nippon Professional Baseball

or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan.

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Nisei

is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants (who are called Issei).

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No-No Boy

No-No Boy is a 1957 novel, and the only novel published by Japanese American writer John Okada.

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Nobu Matsuhisa

Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matsuhisa (松久信幸 Matsuhisa Nobuyuki; born March 10, 1949) is a Japanese celebrity chef and restaurateur known for his fusion cuisine blending traditional Japanese dishes with Peruvian ingredients.

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Nobu McCarthy

Nobu McCarthy (née Atsumi; November 13, 1934 – April 6, 2002) was a Japanese Canadian actress, stage director, and fashion model.

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Nobutaka Ike

Nobutaka Ike (June 6, 1916 – December 15, 2005) was a Stanford University professor of Japanese and East Asian politics.

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Norman Mineta

Norman Yoshio Mineta (born November 12, 1931) is an American politician.

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North American Post

The North American Post (北米報知 Hokubei Höchi) is a newspaper based in Seattle, Washington's International District.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Nyogen Senzaki

Nyogen Senzaki (千崎如幻, 1876–1958) was a Rinzai Zen monk who was one of the 20th century's leading proponents of Zen Buddhism in the United States.

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O. J. Simpson

Orenthal James "O.

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Okinawa Prefecture

is the southernmost prefecture of Japan.

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Olivia Lufkin

Olivia Lufkin (born December 9, 1979), professionally known as Olivia, is a Japanese-American bilingual singer and songwriter.

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Order of the Rising Sun

The is a Japanese order, established in 1875 by Emperor Meiji of Japan.

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Order of the Sacred Treasure

The is a Japanese order, established on 4 January 1888 by Emperor Meiji as the Order of Meiji.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Pacific Citizen

The Pacific Citizen (P.C.) is a national, award-winning semi-monthly newspaper based in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Pacific Overtures

Pacific Overtures is a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman.

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Pat Morita

Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005) was an American film and television actor who was well known for playing the roles of Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on Happy Days (1975–1983) and Mr. Miyagi in ''The Karate Kid'' movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985.

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Pat Suzuki

Pat Suzuki (鈴木千代子; born Chiyoko Suzuki; September 22, 1930, Cressey, California) is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.

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Patsy Mink

was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Hawaii.

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Patti Yasutake

Patti Yasutake (born September 6, 1953) is an American film and television actress who is of Japanese origin.

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Paul Horiuchi

Paul Horiuchi (1906–1999) was an American painter and collagist.

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Paul Igasaki

Paul M. Igasaki (born 1955) is the Chair and Chief Judge of the Administrative Review Board at the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Paul M. Nakasone

Paul Miki Nakasone (born November 19, 1963) is a four-star general in the United States Army who currently serves as the third commander of the United States Cyber Command and the first commander of the same as a unified combatant command.

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Paul Tanaka

Paul K. Tanaka is an American former politician and a former law-enforcement officer with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

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Paula A. Nakayama

Paula A. Nakayama (born October 19, 1953) of Honolulu, Hawaii is Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court.

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Pete Rouse

Peter Mikami Rouse (born April 15, 1946) is an American political consultant who served as interim White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Philip Kan Gotanda

Philip Kan Gotanda (born December 17, 1951) is an American playwright and filmmaker.

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Philip Nozuka

Philip Nozuka (born 1987) is a Canadian-American actor.

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Picture Bride (film)

Picture Bride is an American Japanese-language 1995 feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera.

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President pro tempore of the United States Senate

The President pro tempore of the United States Senate (also president pro tem) is the second-highest-ranking official of the United States Senate.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with the comparable Congressional Gold Medal—the highest civilian award of the United States.

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Princess Peach

is a character in Nintendo's Mario franchise.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) is an American medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC.

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Rachael Yamagata

Rachael Yamagata (born September 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist from Arlington, Virginia.

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Rafu Shimpo

is a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.

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Rea Tajiri

Rea Tajiri (born 1958) is a Japanese American video artist, filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her work Strawberry Fields (1997), which is recognized for its connection to Asian American identity in connection to Tajiri's past.

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Reiko Sato

Reiko Sato (December 19, 1931 – May 28, 1981) was an American dancer and actress.

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Rena Inoue

is a Japanese-born American pair skater.

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Rex Walters

Rex Andrew Walters (born March 12, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player and the current assistant coach of the Detroit Pistons.

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Richard Aoki

Richard Masato Aoki (or; 20 November 1938 – 15 March 2009) was an American educator and college counselor, best known as a civil rights activist and early member of the Black Panther Party.

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Richard Sakai

Richard Sakai (born January 28, 1954) is an American television and film producer.

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Rickie Fowler

Rick Yutaka Fowler (born December 13, 1988) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.

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Rob Mayeda

Rob Mayeda (born, c. 1971) is a meteorologist, reporter, storm chaser, and segment producer for KNTV in San Jose, California.

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Robert A. Nakamura

Robert Akira Nakamura (born July 6, 1937, Venice, California) is a filmmaker and teacher, sometimes referred to as "the Godfather of Asian American media." In 1970 he cofounded Visual Communications (VC) the oldest community-based Asian Pacific American media arts organization in the United States.

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Robert Hamada (professor)

Robert Hamada is the former Edward Eagle Brown Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and former Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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Robert Ito

Robert Ito (born July 2, 1931) is a Canadian-born voice, television, and movie actor of Japanese descent who is perhaps best known to television viewers for his roles as Sam Fujiyama on the NBC-TV series Quincy, M.E. and Lawrence 'Larry' Mishima on the CBS-TV night time soap opera series Falcon Crest.

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Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi

Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (September 12, 1930 – August 4, 2009) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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Robert Murase

Robert Murase (1938 – July 19, 2005) was an American landscape architect.

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Robert Swift

Robert Swift (born December 3, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who plays for Spanish club Círculo Gijón Baloncesto y Conocimiento.

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Robert T. Hoshibata

Robert Tsugio Hoshibata (born 11 October 1951) is a Bishop of The United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in the United States.

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Robert T. Kuroda

Robert Toshio Kuroda (November 8, 1922 – October 20, 1944) was a United States Army soldier.

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Rodney J. T. Yano

Rodney James Takahashi Yano (Japanese surname: 矢野, December 13, 1943 – January 1, 1969) 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.

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Rodney Kageyama

Rodney Kageyama (born Rodney Masao Kageyama on November 1, 1941) is an American stage, film and TV actor.

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Roger Yasukawa

Roger Yasukawa (born October 10, 1977) is a Japanese-American auto racing driver.

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Ronald Takaki

Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki (April 12, 1939 – May 26, 2009) was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author.

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Roxana Saberi

Roxana Saberi (رکسانا صابری) (born April 26, 1977) is an American freelance journalist Press TV, deadlink June 16, 2009 and former Miss North Dakota pageant winner.

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Roy I. Sano

Roy Isao Sano (born 1931) is a retired Japanese-American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984.

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Roy Kusumoto

Roy Kusumoto is an American businessman who founded Solectron in 1977.

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Roy Matsumoto

Roy Hiroshi Matsumoto (May 1, 1913 – April 21, 2014) was an American soldier of World War II.

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Russell S. Kokubun

Russell S. Kokubun (born 1948), is a Democratic politician who became a member and Vice President of the Hawaii Senate.

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Ruth Asawa

Ruth Aiko Asawa (January 24, 1926 – August 5, 2013) was an American sculptor.

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Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest.

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Ryan Higa

Ryan Higa (born June 6, 1990), also known by his YouTube username nigahiga, is an American comedian, YouTube personality, and actor.

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Ryan Potter

Ryan Potter (born September 12, 1995) is an American actor.

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Ryo Okumoto

Ryo Okumoto (奥本亮, born May 24, 1959) is a Japanese rock keyboardist, best known for his work with progressive rock group Spock's Beard.

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Ryu Goto

is a Japanese-American concert violinist.

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Ryuzo Yanagimachi

is a Japan-born American-based scientist.

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S. I. Hayakawa

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry.

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Sab Shimono

Sab Shimono (born Saburo Shimono; July 31, 1937) is an American actor of Japanese descent who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows in character roles.

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Sachi Koto

Sachi Koto (born October 15, 1951) was a news anchor on CNN Headline News for 16 years, usually during weekend evenings, until her contract expired in July 2005.

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Sadao Munemori

Sadao Munemori (旨森貞雄, August 17, 1922 – April 5, 1945) was a United States Army soldier and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor, after he sacrificed his life to save those of his fellow soldiers at Seravezza, Italy during World War II.

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Sally Amaki

is an American idol and voice actress based in Tokyo, Japan.

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Sam K. Shimabukuro

Sam Koyei Shimabukuro (June 7, 1925 – October 8, 2015) was one of only two Japanese Americans to have been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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San Francisco Renaissance

The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centered on San Francisco, which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetry avant-garde.

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Sanji Abe

was a pre-World War II politician in Hawaii.

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Sansei

is a Japanese and American English term used in parts of the world such as South America and North America to specify the children of children born to ethnic Japanese in a new country of residence.

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Santa J. Ono

Santa Jeremy Ono (大野三太; born 1962) is a Canadian-American biologist and university administrator.

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Sara Tanaka

Sara Tanaka (born November 21, 1978) is an American physician and former film actress.

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Satoshi Hino

is a Japanese voice actor.

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Sayonara

Sayonara is a 1957 Technicolor American film starring Marlon Brando in Technirama.

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Scooby-Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day.

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Scott Oki

Scott D. Oki (born October 5, 1948 in Seattle, Washington) is a former senior vice-president of sales and marketing for Microsoft who conceived and built Microsoft's international operations.

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Scott Saiki

Scott K. Saiki (born July 17, 1964) is an American attorney and politician.

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Scott Sassa

Scott M. Sassa is an American entertainment executive who has held a number of high-level executive positions in large entertainment companies.

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Sean Lennon

is an American singer, songwriter and actor.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seiji Ozawa

is a Japanese conductor known for his advocacy of modern composers and for his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Sessue Hayakawa

Kintaro Hayakawa (June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor.

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Seventy (LDS Church)

Seventy is a priesthood office in the Melchizedek priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Shane Victorino

Shane Patrick Victorino (born November 30, 1980), nicknamed "The Flyin' Hawaiian", is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

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Sharon Tomiko Santos

Sharon Tomiko Santos (born July 5, 1961 in San Francisco, California), American politician, is a Washington State representative representing the 37th legislative district.

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Shin Koyamada

is a Japanese American actor, producer, philanthropist, entrepreneur and martial artist.

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Shinyei Nakamine

Shinyei Nakamine (January 21, 1920 – June 2, 1944) was a United States Army soldier.

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Shizuko Hoshi

Shizuko Hoshi is a Japanese-American actress and theatre director living in Southern California.

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Shizuya Hayashi

Shizuya Hayashi (November 28, 1917 – March 12, 2008) was a soldier in the 100th Infantry Battalion of the United States Army.

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Sho Kosugi

, born on June 17, 1948, is a Japanese martial artist with extensive training in Shindō jinen-ryū Karate, Kendo, Judo, Iaido, Kobudo, Aikido and Ninjutsu, who gained popularity as an actor during the 1980s, often playing ninjas.

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Sho Yano

is an American physician.

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Shogo Kubo

Shogo Kubo (September 19, 1959 - June 24, 2014) was a skateboarding pioneer and one of the original members of the Z-Boys crew that formed in Venice, California in 1975.

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Shoji Tabuchi

is a Japanese American country music fiddler and singer who currently performs at his theater, The Shoji Tabuchi Theatre, in Branson, Missouri.

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Shuji Nakamura

is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is regarded as the inventor of the blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology.

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Shuko Akune

Shuko Akune is an American film, television and stage actress best known for such films and television series as E/R, Come See the Paradise, Alien Nation, Cruel Intentions 2, G.I. Joe: The Movie, Murphy Brown, and The Steve Harvey Show.

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Shusaku Arakawa

was a Japanese artist and architect.

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Sinfest

Sinfest is an American webcomic by Tatsuya Ishida.

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Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall.

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Soji Kashiwagi

Soji Kashiwagi (born 1962 in Oakland, California) is a Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) journalist, playwright and producer.

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Solectron

Solectron Corporation was a global electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

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Sophie Oda

Sophie Tamiko Oda (born October 23, 1991) is an American actress.

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Sotaro

, known as, is an American actor and model in Japan.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto.

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Spark Matsunaga

was a United States Senator from Hawaii, serving from 1977 until his death in 1990.

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Spock's Beard

Spock's Beard is an American progressive rock band formed in Los Angeles.

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St. Elsewhere

St.

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Stan Matsunaka

Stanley Toshi Matsunaka (born November 12, 1953) is a former Democratic member of the State Senate of the U.S. state of Colorado, serving from 1995 to 2003.

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Stan Sakai

is a Japanese-American cartoonist and comic book creator.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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Static-X

Static-X was an American industrial metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994.

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Steere Noda

Gikaku Steere Noda (1892–1986) was a Japanese American politician, lawyer, and baseball player in the State of Hawaii.

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Stephanie (singer)

Stephanie Topalian (Ստեֆանի Թոփալյան) Western Armenian Սթեֆանի Թօփալեան, professionally known as is an American singer and actress of Armenian and Japanese descent.

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Steve Aoki

Steven Hiroyuki Aoki (born November 30, 1977) is an American electro house musician, record producer, DJ, and music executive.

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Steven Okazaki

Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952 in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker.

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String field theory

String field theory (SFT) is a formalism in string theory in which the dynamics of relativistic strings is reformulated in the language of quantum field theory.

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STS-51-L

STS-51-L was the 25th mission of the United States Space Shuttle program, and disastrous final mission of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.

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Sue Kunitomi Embrey

Sue Kunitomi Embrey (1923–2006) was a teacher, activist and long-time chair of the Manzanar Committee, which established the annual Manzanar pilgrimage and obtained National Historic Site status for the former concentration camp.

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Sueo Serisawa

Sueo Serisawa (April 10, 1910 – September 7, 2004) was a Japanese American who became a modernist of the Los Angeles school.

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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Supreme Court of Hawaii

The Supreme Court of Hawaii is the highest court of the State of Hawaii in the United States.

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Surgeon General of the United States

The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States.

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Susan K. Mashiko

Susan K. Mashiko is a retired United States Air Force major general who served as the Deputy Director, National Reconnaissance Office, Chantilly, Virginia.

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Susumu Ohno

was a Japanese-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and seminal researcher in the field of molecular evolution.

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Suzy Nakamura

Suzy Nakamura is an American actress of Japanese descent.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Synchromism

Synchromism was an art movement founded in 1912 by American artists Stanton MacDonald-Wright (1890-1973) and Morgan Russell (1886-1953).

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Tadd Fujikawa

Tadd Fujikawa (born January 8, 1991) is a Japanese American professional golfer.

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Taitetsu Unno

Taitetsu Unno (海野大徹 Unno Taitetsu) was a scholar, lecturer, and author on the subject of Pure Land Buddhism.

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Tak Fujimoto

Takashi "Tak" Fujimoto, ASC (born July 12, 1939) is an American cinematographer.

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Takashi Ono (mathematician)

is a retired Japanese-born American mathematician, specializing in number theory and algebraic groups.

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Takayo Fischer

Takayo Fischer (born November 25, 1932) is an American stage, film and TV actress, as well as voice-over actress and singer.

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Takeshi Amemiya

is an economist specializing in econometrics and the economy of ancient Greece.

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Takeshi Fuji

Takeshi Fuji (藤猛, born Paul Takeshi Fuji on July 6, 1940) is a Japanese-American former professional boxer.

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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 care and perhaps "peace to everyone on our planet." He is the founder and vice president for "Technology and Coordination" of the Global University System, and is the co-editor of a new book about that project, Global Peace Through The Global University System.

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Takuji Yamashita

Takuji Yamashita (1874–1959) was a Japanese civil rights activist.

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Taky Kimura

Taky Kimura (born March 12, 1924) is a Japanese American martial artist who is best known as being one of Bruce Lee's top students and closest friends - and a certified instructor in Jun Fan Gung Fu, personally certified by Bruce Lee himself.

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Tamlyn Tomita

Tamlyn Naomi Tomita (born January 27, 1966) is a Japanese-American actress and singer.

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Taro Yashima

Yashima painted this propaganda leaflet which was used by the US Armed Forces in the Pacific War. was the pseudonym of, a Japanese artist who lived in the United States during World War II.

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Technology evangelist

A technology evangelist is a person who builds a critical mass of support for a given technology, and then establishes it as a technical standard in a market that is subject to network effects.

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Ted Fujita

was a prominent Japanese-American severe storms researcher.

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Ted T. Tanouye

Ted Takayuki Tanouye (November 14, 1919 – September 6, 1944) was a Japanese American soldier in the United States Army who posthumously received the United States military′s highest decoration for bravery—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

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Teiko Nishi

Teiko Nishi (born c. 1967) is an American former women's basketball player.

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Teppei Teranishi

Teppei Teranishi (born September 13, 1980) is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Thrice from Orange County, California.

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Terry Teruo Kawamura

Terry Teruo Kawamura (Surname:, December 10, 1949 – March 20, 1969) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Vietnam War.

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Terrytoons

Terrytoons was a studio in New Rochelle, New York, that produced animated cartoons for theatrical release from 1930–1971.

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Teruhisa Matsusaka

(1926–2006) was a Japanese-born American mathematician, who specialized in algebraic geometry.

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The Cats of Mirikitani

The Cats of Mirikitani is a documentary film originally released in 2006.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often informally known as the Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian, Christian restorationist church that is considered by its members to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ.

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The Debut

The Debut is an independent feature-length film directed and co-written by first-time Filipino American filmmaker Gene Cajayon.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website that has been published in the Denver, Colorado area since 1892.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Sand Pebbles (film)

The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 American DeLuxe Color war film directed by Robert Wise in Panavision.

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The Silence of the Lambs (film)

The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Scott Glenn.

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The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois.

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The Ugly American

The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer which depicts the failures of the U.S. diplomatic corps in Southeast Asia.

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The White Man's Burden

"The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" (1899), by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem about the Philippine–American War (1899–1902), in which he invites the United States to assume colonial control of that country.

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Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena.

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Thomas Sakakihara

, referred to locally as Tommy Sakakihara in person and in print, was a Japanese American politician from Hawaii, interned due to his ancestry during World War II.

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Thrice

Thrice is an American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998.

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Today (U.S. TV program)

Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC.

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Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose (alternative spelling Tokio Rose) was a name given by Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II to all female English-speaking radio broadcasters of Japanese propaganda.

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Tom Gorai

Tom Gorai (born December 1962) is an American film producer.

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Tommy Kono

Tamio "Tommy" Kono (June 27, 1930 – April 24, 2016) was an American weightlifter in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Tony Sano

Tony Sano, a Japanese-American born in Tokyo, was the host of ABC's I Survived a Japanese Game Show season 1.

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Toshi Seeger

Toshi Aline Seeger (née Ohta; July 1, 1922 – July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer, and environmental activist.

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Toshihiro Oshiro

is a martial arts master and instructor from Haneji, Okinawa, Ryukyu, Japan.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi

is a Japanese jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist.

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Toshiko Takaezu

Toshiko Takaezu (17 June 1922 – 9 March 2011) was an American ceramic artist and painter.

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Toyo Suyemoto

Toyo Suyemoto (January 14, 1916 – December 30, 2003) was a Japanese-American poet, memoirist, and librarian.

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Travis Ishikawa

Travis Takashi Ishikawa (born September 24, 1983) is an American former professional baseball first baseman.

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Tricia Takasugi

Tricia Ann Takasugi (born March 2, 1961 in Oxnard, California) is a Japanese-American general assignment reporter for KTTV Fox 11 in Los Angeles.

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Tritia Toyota

Tritia Toyota (born March 29, 1947) is a former Los Angeles television news anchor and a current adjunct assistant professor in anthropology, Asian-American studies and the media at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Trivium (band)

Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999.

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Tsuru Aoki

was a popular Japanese stage and screen actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1920s.

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Tsutomu Shimomura

is an American physicist and computer security expert.

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U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The U.S. Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of the United States.

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Umi Garrett

Umi Garrett (born August 15, 2000) is an American classical pianist.

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United Methodist Church

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a mainline Protestant denomination and a major part of Methodism.

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United States Cyber Command

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is one of ten unified commands of the United States Department of Defense.

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United States Pacific Fleet

The United States Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) is a Pacific Ocean theater-level component command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to the United States Indo-Pacific Command.

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United States presidential line of succession

The United States presidential line of succession is the order in which officials of the United States federal government discharge the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States if the incumbent president becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns, or is removed from office (by impeachment by the House of Representatives and subsequent conviction by the Senate) during their four-year term of office.

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United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps

The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC), also referred to as the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, is the federal uniformed service of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), and is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Secretary of Transportation

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential Line of Succession.

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United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

The United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the head of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the department concerned with veterans' benefits, health care, and national veterans' memorials and cemeteries.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, Orange County, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.

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University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati (commonly referred to as UC or Cincinnati) is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, in the U.S. state of Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio.

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Usagi Yojimbo

is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai.

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Utada Hikaru

, who has also gone by Hikaru Utada and the mononym Utada, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and producer.

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Vampire

A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital force (generally in the form of blood) of the living.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vincent Okamoto

Vincent Hichiro Okamoto (born November 22, 1943 in Poston, Arizona) is an American attorney, judge, author, and retired United States Army officer.

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Visas and Virtue

Visas and Virtue is a 1997 narrative short film inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler".

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Visual Communications

Visual Communications (also known as VC) –– is a community-based non-profit media arts organization based in Los Angeles and founded in 1970 by independent filmmakers Robert Nakamura, Alan Ohashi, Eddie Wong, and Duane Kubo.

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Wakako Yamauchi

Wakako Yamauchi (born 1924) is an Nisei Japanese American writer.

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Wake Me When It's Over

Wake Me When It's Over is Faster Pussycat's second album, moving from the glam metal sound of their first album to a blues-influenced sound.

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Wally Yonamine

, also known as Wally Yonamine, was a multi-sport American athlete who played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

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Warren Furutani

Warren T. Furutani (born October 16, 1947) is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly.

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Wataru Misaka

is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Wayne Inouye

Wayne Inouye (born 1953) formerly served as Gateway's president & CEO.

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WCAU

WCAU, virtual channel 10 (UHF digital channel 34), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Webcomic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app.

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William K. Nakamura

William Kenzo Nakamura (January 21, 1922 – July 4, 1944) 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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William Saito

is a Japanese American businessman, venture capitalist and former advisor to the government of Japan specializing in cybersecurity.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yamato Ichihashi

Yamato Ichihashi (1878–1963) was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States.

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Yeiki Kobashigawa

Yeiki Kobashigawa (September 28, 1917 – March 31, 2005) was a soldier in United States Army.

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Yoichiro Nambu

was a Japanese-American physicist and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono (小野洋子, born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist who is also known for her work in performance art and filmmaking.

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Yoky Matsuoka

Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972 in Japan) is the former Vice President of Technology at Nest, where she was in charge of UX and the learning aspects of Nest's thermostat.

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Yonsei (Japanese diaspora)

is a Japanese diasporic term used in countries, particularly in North America and in Latin America, to specify the great-grandchildren of Japanese immigrants (Issei).

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Yoshi Oyakawa

Yoshinobu Oyakawa (born August 9, 1933) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in the 100-meter backstroke.

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Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (November 24, 1921 – June 21, 1992) was a Japanese American writer.

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YouTuber

A YouTuber, also known as a YouTube personality or YouTube celebrity, is a type of internet celebrity and videographer who has gained popularity from their videos on the video-sharing website, YouTube.

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Yuji Ichioka

Yuji Ichioka, (June 23, 1936 – September 1, 2002) was an American historian and civil rights activist best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies and his participation in the Asian American movement.

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Yuji Okumoto

is an American actor and filmmaker best known for his intimidating movie roles, primarily as a villain, such as Chozen Toguchi in The Karate Kid Part II.

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Yuki Shimoda

Yuki Shimoda (August 10, 1921 – May 21, 1981) 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.

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Yukio Okutsu

Yukio Okutsu (November 3, 1921 – August 24, 2003) was a United States Army soldier.

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Yuna Ito

is an American former singer and actress who was active in Japan.

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Yuri Kochiyama

was an American activist.

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Yvonne Elliman

Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.

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Zen

Zen (p; translit) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism.

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22/7 (idol group)

22/7 (read as) is a Japanese idol and anime series project between Yasushi Akimoto, Aniplex, and Sony Music Records.

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References

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