kanreki (還暦), a traditional, pre-modern Japanese rite of passage to old age at 60, was sometimes celebrated by the Issei and is now being celebrated by increasing numbers of Nisei and a few Sansei. Rituals are enactments of shared meanings, norms, and values and this Japanese rite of passage highlights a collective response among the Nisei to the conventional dilemmas of growing older. History Internment and redress Some responded to internment with lawsuits and political action; and for others, poetry became an unplanned consequence: With new hope. We build new lives. Why complain when it rains? This is what it means to be free. -- Lawson Fusao Inada, Japanese American Historical Plaza, Portland, Oregon. Life under United States policies before and after World War II Politics The sansei became known as the "activist generation" because of their large hand in the redress movement and individuals that have become a part of the American mainstream political landscape. Notable individuals The numbers of sansei who have earned some degree of public recognition has continued to increase over time; but the quiet lives of those whose names are known only to family and friends are no less important in understanding the broader narrative of the Nikkei. Although the names highlighted here are over-represented by sansei from North America, the Latin American member countries of the Pan American Nikkei Association (PANA) include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, in addition to the English-speaking United States and Canada. Francis Fukuyama Robert S. Hamada Ryan Higa Mike Honda Kaisei Ichiro Lawson Fusao Inada Soji Kashiwagi Janice Kawaye Kyle Larson Doris Matsui Robert Matsui Dale Minami Patsy Mink Kent Nagano Suzy Nakamura Desmond Nakano Lane Nishikawa Linda Nishio Bev Oda Sophie Oda Steven Okazaki Yuji Okumoto Ellison Onizuka Pete Rouse Lenn Sakata<ref>Nakagawa, Kerry Yo. "Through a Diamond: 100 years of Japanese American Baseball, p. 123.]</ref> Roger Shimomura Mike Shinoda Eric Shinseki David Suzuki Ronald Takaki Mark Takano Dan Tani Chris Tashima David Tsubouchi Gedde Watanabe Kristi Yamaguchi Jan Yanehiro See also Notes References Harth, Erica. (2003). Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans. New York: Macmillan. ; OCLC 46364694 Hosokowa, Fumiko. (1978). The Sansei: Social Interaction and Ethnic Identification Among the Third Generation Japanese. San Francisco: R & E Research Associates. ; OCLC 4057372 Itoh, Keiko. (2001). The Japanese Community in Pre-War Britain: From Integration to Disintegration. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon. ;