Japanese American

A Japanese-American is a person of Japanese ancestry or origin who was either born in or is an immigrant to the United States. There are three main groups of Japanese Americans; the Issei, the Nisei, and the Sansei.

Many of them suffered from discrimination during Japanese internment in World War II which was a relocation of Japanese Americans living on the West Coast to concentration camps. (Hawaii, which had a sizable Japanese American population, did not participate in the internment policy.)

Notable Japanese Americans include:

• Keiko Agena[?], regular actor on Gilmore Girls, casted as a Korean American
• Francis Fukuyama, economist/historian
• Michio Kaku[?] (加來紀雄), scientist known for his string field theory
• Clyde Kusatsu[?], actor
• Yoko Ono, musician
• George Takei[?], actor (in Star Trek)
• Kristi Yamaguchi, athlete
• Patti Yasutake[?], actor (in Star Trek: TNG)

See also: Japanese internment, a historical event during WW2, Chinese American, Asian Canadian, Japanese person