Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
George Nakashima. George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 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 [citation needed]. In 1983, he accepted the ...
History of Japanese Americans. 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.
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 [8] and most of them settled in either Hawaii or along the West Coast.
EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955). – SASSE, Arthur (1908–1975). Photograph signed in the upper right margin ("A Einstein '51"), [Princeton, 1951]. The photograph depicts Marilyn Monroe while her white dress blows upwards during a shot for a scene in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch.
Joe Nanini. Julius Naranjo. Karen Narasaki. Nate Shinagawa. Rumi Neely. Stephen Nelson (sportscaster) Itsuko Sue Nishikawa. Lisa Nishimura. Esther Takei Nishio.
V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt that portrays a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger [1] —a dental assistant—on Victory over Japan Day ("V-J Day") [2] in New York City 's Times Square on August 14, 1945. The photograph was published a week later in Life magazine, among many photographs of ...
Young Jean Lee – playwright, director, and filmmaker. Carol Lin – news anchor. Sam Chu Lin – journalist, one of the first Asian Americans on network TV news. Lisa Ling (凌志慧) – journalist, known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View and host of National Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentarian for CNN.