American writers of Japanese descent

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Inouye, Hisaye Yamamoto, Roxana Saberi, Miné Okubo, Velina Hasu Houston, Robert Kiyosaki, Larry Hama, Ronald Takaki, Danny Yamashiro, Bill Hosokawa, Yone Noguchi, S. I. Hayakawa, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Mitsuye Yamada, John Okada, Michiko Kakutani, Joseph Heco, James Yoshimura, Yoshiko Uchida, Kimiko Hahn, Togo Tanaka, Philip Kan Gotanda, Gyo Fujikawa, Jun Fujita, Monica Sone, Maureen Wartski, Ai, Milton Murayama, Dan Kwong, Lawson Fusao Inada, Tim Toyama, Franklin Odo, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Wakako Yamauchi, Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Garrett Hongo, William Hohri, Toshio Mori, Allen Say, Ruth Ozeki, Soji Kashiwagi, David Mura, Roy I. Sano, Janice Mirikitani, Sadakichi Hartmann, Eilis Flynn, Cynthia Kadohata, Daniel Okimoto, Lee Tonouchi, Sesshu Foster, Ken Narasaki, Kenneth Yasuda, Dale Furutani, Naomi Iizuka, Karen Tei Yamashita, Keiho Soga, Sheila Hamanaka, Milton K. Ozaki, Gary Okihiro, V. Vale, Ronald Phillip Tanaka, Desmond Nakano, Karl Ichiro Akiya, Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, Yuko Taniguchi, Dorinne K. Kondo, Gail Tsukiyama, Makoto Ueda, Amy Uyematsu, Takashi Matsuoka, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Iris Yamashita. Excerpt: Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye (pronounced , Japanese: ¿¿ ¿, Inoue Ken; born September 7, 1924) is the senior United States Senator from Hawaii, a member of the Democratic Party, and the President pro tempore of the United States Senate making him the highest-ranking Asian American politician in American history. Inouye is the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations. A senator since 1963, Inouye is the most senior senator. He is also the second longest serving U.S. Senator in history after Robert Byrd. Inouye has continuously represented Hawaii in the U.S. Congress since it achieved statehood in 1959, serving as Hawaii's first U.S. Representative and later a senator. Inouye was the first Japanese-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first in the U.S. Senate. At age 86, Inouye is the second-oldest current senator, after 87 year old Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey. He is also a recipient of the United States Medal of Honor. If he serves until June 29, 2014, he will become the longest serving Senator in history. Inouye has already announced that he plans to run for a record tenth term in 2016, when he will be 92 years old. Inouye was born on September 7, 1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii, the son of Kame (née Imanaga) and Hyotaro Inouye. He is a Nisei Japanese-American (an American-born child of Japanese immigrants) and grew up in the Bingham Tract, a Chinese-American enclave within the predominantly Japanese-American community of Mo'ili'ili in Honolulu. He graduated from Honolulu's President William McKinley High School. Inouye was at the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 as a medical volunteer. In 1943, when the U.S. Army dropped its ban on Japanese-Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which became the most-highly decorated unit in the history of the Army. Inouye was promoted to the rank of sergeant within h