musician. George Masa (1881–1933), activist in creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Hikaru Nakamura (1987– ), an American chess Grandmaster and five time United States Chess Champion. Yoichiro Nambu (1921–2015), a physicist and 2008 Nobel Laureate Joseph Ogura (1915–1983), an otolaryngologist; head and neck surgeon. Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A pioneer in designing and teaching head and neck cancer surgeries. He authored over 200 original articles. Author of over 10 definitive textbooks in the field of head and neck oncology. Nisei (二世), with his California family interned during WW II. He was advised to move to the midwest to avoid internment becoming the chairman of otolaryngology; head and neck surgery at Washington University from 1960 to 1983. Masi Oka (1974– ), an Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominated American actor George Shima (1864–1926), the first Japanese American millionaire. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Shin-issei (Japanese born), actor Jōkichi Takamine (1854–1922), a Japanese chemist Tamlyn Tomita, actress; Sansei on father's side and mother is Japanese/Filipina Miyoshi Umeki, (May 8, 1929 – August 28, 2007) was a Japanese-American singer and actress. Umeki was a Tony Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and the first East Asian-American woman to win an Academy Award for acting from the 1958 film, Sayonara as well as Mei Li in the Broadway musical and 1961 MGM film Flower Drum Song, and Mrs. Livingston in the television series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She was a shin Issei, or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. Takuji Yamashita (1874–1959), an early civil-rights campaigner See also Notes References Eiichiro Azuma. (2005). "Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America." New York: Oxford University Press Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers. (1999). Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration. New York: Columbia University Press. Ichioka, Yuji. (1988). The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885–1924. New York: The Free Press. Itoh, Keiko. (2001). The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain: From Integration to Disintegration. London: Routledge. Kimura, Yukiko. (1988). Issei: Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. McLellan, Janet. (1999). Many Petals of the Lotus: Five Asian Buddhist Communities in Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Miki, Roy Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice. Vancouver: Raincoast Books. Keibo Oiwa, Keibo and Joy Kogawa. (1991). Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei. Montréal : Véhicule Press. Sakata, Yasuo, Los Angeles