Born in Hiroshima, Japan, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1934, married Akiko May Taketa (a UC Berkeley graduate born and raised in Sacramento) and was a graduate student at Stanford University in 1942. After his release from Tule Lake, Shirai became a successful California businessman. Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (1930–2009), first Japanese-American appointed to the federal bench. George Takei (born 1937), an American actor best known for his role in Star Trek. Also interned at Rohwer. George T. Tamura (1927–2010), an artist. Kazue Togasaki (1897-1992), one of the first two women of Japanese ancestry to earn a medical degree in the United States. Also interned at Topaz and Manzanar. Teiko Tomita (1896–1990), a tanka poet. Also interned at Heart Mountain. Taitetsu Unno (1930–2014), a Buddhist scholar, lecturer, and author. Also interned at Rohwer. Harry Urata (1917–2009), a music teacher Jimi Yamaichi member of the 27 draft resisters of conscience, a Tule Lake survivor who shares his memories at the biennial pilgrimages, and promotes preservation of the site. Takuji Yamashita (1874–1959), an early 20th-century civil rights pioneer. Also interned at Manzanar and Minidoka. Kenneth Yasuda (1914–2002), scholar and translator. Terminology Since the end of World War II, there has been debate over the terminology used to refer to Tule Lake, and the other camps in which Japanese Americans were imprisoned by the United States Government during the war. Tule Lake has been referred to as a "relocation camp," "relocation center," "internment camp", "concentration camp", and "segregation center," and the controversy over which term is the most accurate and appropriate continues into the early 21st century. Activists and scholars believe the government terms: relocation and internment, are euphemisms for forced deportation and concentration camps. In 1998, use of the term "concentration camps" gained greater credibility prior to the opening of an exhibit at Ellis Island about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Initially, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the National Park Service, which manages Ellis Island, objected to the use of the term in the exhibit. But, during a subsequent meeting held at the offices of the AJC in New York City, leaders representing Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans reached an understanding about the use of the term. After the meeting, the Japanese American National Museum and the AJC issued a joint statement (which was included in the exhibit) that read in part: The New York Times published an