Kochiyama's 95th birthday, prompting both praise and criticism of Kochiyama and Google, with Senator Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) calling for a public apology from the company. March 2019 in conjunction with Women's History Month and International Women's Rights a public art project was commissioned in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan. It includes Kochiyama from the 2015 children's book, Rad American Women A – Z (by Kate Schatz, Illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl). Death Kochiyama died on June 1, 2014, at the age of 93 in Berkeley, California. Media appearances Kochiyama appeared as herself in the TV movie Death of a Prophet — The Last Days of Malcolm X in 1981. Kochiyama appeared in the award-winning documentary, All Power to the People! (1996), by Chinese-Jamaican-American filmmaker Lee Lew-Lee for ZDF-Arte, broadcast in 21 nations and the U.S. between 1996 and 2001. Kochiyama was the subject of the documentary film Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice (1993) directed by Japanese-American filmmaker Rea Tajiri and co-produced by African-American filmmaker Pat Saunders. Kochiyama and her husband, Bill Kochiyama, were featured in the documentary My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha by the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña. Kochiyama was the subject, along with Angela Davis, of the documentary film Mountains That Take Wing (2010) by C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan. Kochiyama's speeches were published in Discover Your Mission: Selected Speeches & Writings of Yuri Kochiyama (1998), compiled by Russell Muranaka. Kochiyama is the subject of a play, Yuri and Malcolm X, by Japanese American playwright, Tim Toyama. Kochiyama is the subject of the play Bits of Paradise by Marlan Warren (showcased at The Marsh Theater, San Francisco, 2008), as well as a documentary currently in production, What did you do in the War, Mama?: Kochiyama's Crusaders, a documentary film project that features interviews with Japanese American women internees (Producer: Marlan Warren). Kochiyama is mentioned in the Blue Scholars' album Bayani on the title track and has a track titled in her honor in their 2011 album Cinemetropolis. Notes References Further reading External links National Women's History Project article about Kochiyama Documentary in production about Yuri Kochiayama's Crusaders Videos Ladies of Awesome: Yuri Kochiyama part 1--Yuri Kochiyama: On Knowing Malcolm X 1921 births 2014 deaths American twins Activists from California American human rights activists American Maoists American Muslim activists American people of Japanese descent American Sunni Muslims Asian-American feminists Converts to Sunni Islam from Protestantism Japanese-American civil rights