List of Japanese Americans

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The following is a list of famous Japanese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:

Keiko Agena, actress (Gilmore Girls)
George Ariyoshi, first Asian American governor of a U.S. state
Ann Curry, newsreader on Today (mother is Japanese)
Ted Fujita, creator of the Fujita scale
Francis Fukuyama, economist and historian
S. I. Hayakawa, former Senator from California and linguistics scholar
Mike Honda, Congressman from California and community leader
Paul Igasaki, former Vice Chair and acting Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
James Iha, Guitarist for Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle
Daniel Inouye, Senator from Hawaii
Lance Ito, judge, presided over O. J. Simpson criminal trial
Michio Kaku, scientist known for his string field theory
Michiko Kakutani, author
Yuri Kochiyama, the Japanese American civil rights activist and friend of Malcolm X
Alice K. Kurashige, the first Japanese American woman to be commissioned in the United States Marine Corps
Dorinne K. Kondo, anthropologist
Fred Korematsu resisted, and then challenged in court, the forced internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II
Robert Matsui, Congressman from California and chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Norman Mineta, politician and current Secretary of Transportation
Pat Morita, actor and comedian
Chad Morton, running back for the Washington Redskins
Johnnie Morton, wide receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs
Hikaru Nakamura, chess grandmaster
Karen Narasaki, Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
Isamu Noguchi, artist, sculptor, designer
Ellison Onizuka, first Asian American astronaut; one of the "Challenger Seven"
Sharon Tomiko Santos, Democratic Whip of the Washington State House of Representatives
James Shigeta, actor
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, radio broadcaster who has been nicknamed "Tokyo Rose"
Mike Shinoda, Linkin Park band member
Eric Shinseki - United States Army General, Army Chief of Staff, 1999-2003
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor
Ronald Takaki (author)- historian, UC Berkeley professor
George Takei - actor, Sulu on Star Trek
Tamlyn Tomita - half-Japanese half-Filipino actress
Susumu Tonegawa - Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1987
Utada - singer/songwriter. Multi-million selling Japanese pop music star. Topped Billboard Club chart with "Devil Inside" in 2004
Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater
Hiro Yamamoto, original bass player for Soundgarden
Minoru Yamasaki, architect, best known for the New York World Trade Center "Twin Towers."
Roger Yasukawa, auto-racing driver (IRL)

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