been referred to as a "War Relocation Center," "relocation camp," "relocation center," "internment camp," "incarceration camp," and "concentration camp," and the controversy over which term is the most accurate and appropriate continues to the present day. Scholars and activists have criticized "internment camp" for being a minimizing, misleading euphemism, as Japanese Americans were not there for protection, performed forced labor, and could not leave. Notable internees Hideo Date (1907–2005), a painter Kathryn Doi (born 1942), Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeals. Frank S. Emi (1916–2010), Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee leader and civil rights activist. Sadamitsu "S. Neil" Fujita (1921–2010), graphic designer who served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Evelyn Nakano Glenn (born 1940), a professor of Gender & Women Studies and of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and founding director of the Center for Race and Gender (CRG). Also interned at Gila River. Mary Matsuda Gruenewald (1925–2021), memoirist. Also interned at Tule Lake. Joe Hayashi (1920–1945), 442nd RCT volunteer posthumously awarded Medal of Honor. Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007), author and journalist, editor of the camp newspaper "Heart Mountain Sentinel." Momoko Iko (1940–2020), an American playwright. Estelle Ishigo (née Peck) (1899–1990), an American artist married to a Nisei. George Igawa, leader of the George Igawa Orchestra, a jazz big band formed by musicians interned within the camp, which played for dances around the region. George Ishiyama (1914–2003), businessman and former president of Alaska Pulp Corporation. Also interned at Topaz. Hikaru Iwasaki (1923–2016), an American photographer . Lincoln Kanai (1908—1982), social worker and civil rights activist who brought a legal challenge to the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), an author and civil and social justice advocate. Yosh Kuromiya (1923–2018), Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee member who resisted the draft on constitutional grounds and promoted understanding of the Nisei draft resisters in film and public forums. Robert Kuwahara (1901–1964), animator. Bill Manbo (1908–1992), an amateur photographer Norman Mineta (1931–2022), United States Secretary of Transportation under George W. Bush and United States Secretary of Commerce under Bill Clinton. Lane Nakano (1925–2005), American soldier turned actor Fusataro Nakaya (1886–1952), medical doctor (1916 graduate of University of Illinois Medical College), member of California Medical Association, Vice President of Los Angeles Japanese Association Shigeki Oka (1878–1959), Issei newspaper publisher who was recruited by the British Armed Forces in World War II. Benji Okubo