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Walter Kaner (May 5, 1920 – June 26, 2005) was a journalist and radio personality who broadcast using the name Tokyo Mose during and after World War II. Kaner broadcast on U.S. Army Radio, at first to offer comic rejoinders to the propaganda broadcasts of Tokyo Rose and then as a parody to entertain U.S. troops abroad.
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.
Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans .
Taira is the granddaughter of Okinawan immigrants, Kame and Kamado Taira, who immigrated from Oroku, Okinawa in 1907. [1] Two of her paternal uncles, Masaru and Wilfried, enlisted in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a segregated regiment composed almost entirely of second-generation Japanese-Americans, during the internment of Japanese Americans.
Shintani is a member of the Asian American Women's Artist Caucus, [2] WEAD (Women Eco Artists Directory), [3] and the Northern California Women's Caucus for Art. [4] She is a member of the collective Sansei Granddaughters, a group of five Japanese American women making art about their ancestors' internment during World War II. [5] [6]
Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (Japanese: 戸栗郁子 アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American citizen visiting Japan when World War II began. Unable to return to the United States, she risked her life smuggling food to American service men held in prisoner of war camps.
This compilation highlights American slang from the 1920s and does not include foreign phrases. The glossary includes dated entries connected to bootlegging, criminal activities, drug usage, filmmaking, firearms, ethnic slurs, prison slang, sexuality, women's physical features, and sports metaphors.
She was the first woman of color and the first Asian-American woman elected to Congress, and is known for her work on legislation advancing women's rights and education. Mink was a third-generation Japanese American , having been born and raised on the island of Maui .