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Margaret Lillian Adams (born August 9, 1986), also known as MRirian and Magibon (マギボン), is an American former YouTuber based in Japan. In 2006, Adams began posting videos on YouTube of herself silently looking at the camera, which became popular in Japan and led her channel to rank no. 1 overall in the country in 2008.
Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda (February 9, 1908 – May 1, 2007) was a Japanese American physician and was the first Asian American woman to graduate from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
George Ariyoshi, first Asian American governor of a U.S. state (Hawaii) Alexander Arvizu (born 1958), US diplomat, first Japanese American Ambassador of United States (Albania) from 2010 to 2015; Sue Kunitomi Embrey (1923–2006), co-founder of the Manzanar Committee who worked to gain National Historic Site status for the former concentration camp
First Japanese American woman to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps [21] Robert T. Kuroda – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. Posthumous Medal of Honor recipient in World War II; Ben Kuroki – technical sergeant, U.S. Army Air Corps. Only Japanese American Army Air Force pilot to fly combat missions in the Pacific theater in World War II
1965: Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian American woman elected to the U.S. Congress. 1971: Norman Mineta becomes the first Asian-American mayor of a major city (San Jose, CA) in the United States. [51] 1971: Herbert Choy becomes the first Asian-American U.S. federal court judge, appointed to the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. [52]
Chung, who broke ground as the first Asian American and second woman to anchor a major network broadcast, said the doubts never stopped her. In her 40 years as a journalist, Chung anchored for ...
The majority of Americans can’t name a single famous Asian American, according to a recent survey. The most common answers besides "I can't think of one" was Jackie Chan, who's not American, and ...
Keiko Fukuda (Japanese: 福田 敬子, Hepburn: Fukuda Keiko, April 12, 1913 – February 9, 2013) was a Japanese-American martial artist. She was the highest-ranked female judoka in history, holding the rank of 9th dan from the Kodokan (2006), and 10th dan from USA Judo (July 2011) and from the United States Judo Federation (USJF) (September 2011), and was the last surviving student of Kanō ...