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Asa Akira, pornographic actress and director. Toshiko Akiyoshi, Shin-Issei, musician, jazz pianist, composer, arranger and big band leader. Shuko Akune, actress. Daniella Alonso, actress; father is of part Japanese descent. Sally Amaki, singer and voice actress, member of idol group 22/7.
People from Japan began migrating to the US in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the Meiji Restoration in 1868. These early Issei immigrants came primarily from small towns and rural areas in the southern Japanese prefectures of Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Kumamoto, and Fukuoka and most of them settled in either Hawaii or along the West Coast.
Japanese American history is the history of Japanese Americans or the history of ethnic Japanese in the United States. People from Japan began immigrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. Large-scale Japanese immigration started with immigration to ...
The detainees were not only people of Japanese ancestry, they also included a relatively small number—though still totaling well over ten thousand—of people of German and Italian ancestry as well as Germans who were expelled from Latin America and deported to the U.S.: 124 Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans relocated outside the ...
Ken Nakayama. Niki Nakayama. Joe Nanini. Julius Naranjo. Karen Narasaki. Nate Shinagawa. Rumi Neely. Stephen Nelson (sportscaster) Itsuko Sue Nishikawa.
Asian Americans have been involved in the U.S. entertainment industry since the 19th century, when Afong Moy started a series of shows that evolved into essentially one-women shows. In the mid-19th century, Chang and Eng Bunker (the original " Siamese Twins ") became naturalized citizens and were successful performers in the United States. [1]
The Japanese in Hawaii (simply Japanese or “ Local Japanese ”, rarely Kepanī) are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in 1920, they constituted 43% of Hawaii's population. [2] They now number about 16.7% of the islands' population, according to the 2000 U.S. Census.
There is a Japanese American and a Japanese national population in Los Angeles and Greater Los Angeles. Japanese people began arriving in the United States in the late 1800s and have settled in places like Hawaii, Alaska, and California. Los Angeles has become a hub for people of Japanese descent for generations in areas like Little Tokyo and ...