Japanese emigrants to the United States

Yoko Ono is a Japanese artist, musician, activist, and filmmaker. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking.

American theoretical physicist (1921-2015)

Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

American chess player

American organic chemist

Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist (1931–)

Japanese-American actress and singer (1929–2007)

Mitsuki Laycock (born September 27, 1990), also known as Mitski Miyawaki, and known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.

Japanese actor

Japanese-American actor (1933-2006)

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa was a Japanese actor and film producer who was best known for his role as the evil shapeshifter sorcerer Shang Tsung in various works of the Mortal Kombat franchise: he first played the character in the 1995 film adaptation, and reprised it in 2013 for the television series Mortal Kombat: Legacy and in 2019 for the video game Mortal Kombat 11. He appeared as Lt. A.J. Shimamura on 15 episodes of the American television series Nash Bridges.

Japanese actor (1889–1973)

American lawyer and politician (born 1947)

Japanese Naval officer (1902-1976)

Japanese American Violinist

Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)

Japanese journalist (1859–1933)

American actress

American singer and guitarist

Japanese American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, band master

American actor

Japanese American actress (1938–2011)

Japanese jazz pianist (1961-)

Japanese Buddhist missionary (1904–1971)

Japanese actor

Japanese actress (1892–1961)

American professional wrestler

Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host

Japanese professional wrestler

Japanese-American severe storms researcher

Japanese chemist (1854–1922)

martial artist (1928–2008)

Japanese martial artist

Japanese mathematician (1911–2004)

Japanese actress, voice actress and singer (1963-)

martial artist (1913-2013)

Okinawan martial artist

Japanese-American actress

Olympic synchronized swimmer

American physicist (1933-1982)

Korean prince (1931-2005)

actress (1912-1995)

figure skater

American physicist and computer security expert

Japanese composer

martial artist (1938–2023)

American coroner

Known for Pi calc

Japanese singer

Japanese-American actor, noted for playing an antagonist in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice.

Japanese-American painter (1889–1953)

Japanese artist and architect (1936-2010)

Japanese chef

Japanese-born physicist with notable contributions in the fields of particle physics and cosmology (1964-)

Japanese geneticist (1928–2000)

Japanese model

Japanese mathematician (1932–2012)

graphic designer known for working on Star Trek

Japanese theologian (1915-1992)

Japanese-American professor of geophysics