List of Japanese Americans

This is a list of Japanese Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants, but not Japanese nationals living or working in the US. The list includes a brief description of their reason for notability. == Arts and architecture == Nina Akamu, artist Kichio Allen Arai (c. 1901–1966), architect Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010), artist and architect Ruth Asawa (1926–2013), sculptor Norio Azuma (1928-2004), painter and serigraph artist Hideo Date (1907–2005), painter associated with Synchromism movement Isami Doi (1903–1965), printmaker and painter Paul Horiuchi (1906–1999), painter and collagist Miyoko Ito (1918–1983), painter and watercolorist Ben Kamihira (1924–2004), artist and teacher Jeff Matsuda, Emmy award-winning concept artist, comics artist, and animator John Matsudaira (1922–2007), painter George Matsumoto (1922–2016), architect and educator Jimmy Mirikitani (1920–2012), painter Luna H. Mitani, surrealist painter Robert Murase (1938–2005), world-renowned landscape architect Hashime Murayama (1879–1954), painter George Nakashima (1905–1990), Nisei, woodworker, architect, and furniture maker Hideo Noda (1908–1939), modernist painter and muralist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), artist, sculptor, designer Kenjiro Nomura (1896–1956), painter Chiura Obata (1885–1975), well-known artist and recipient of the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 5th Class, for promoting goodwill and cultural understanding between the United States and Japan Toshio Odate (born 1930), Japanese woodworker, sculptor, educator; born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1948.

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