An Amerasian may refer to a person born in East or Southeast Asia to an East Asian or Southeast Asian mother and a U.S. military father. Other terms used include War babies or G.I. Babies.
Novelist Pearl S. Buck is credited for dubbing the term Amerasian.
Denny Tamaki, a politician of mixed Japanese and European American heritage, is the current Governor of Okinawa Prefecture.
Harry B. Harris Jr., who is of mixed Japanese and European ancestry, is an Amerasian who served as the 23rd United States Ambassador to South Korea.
Insooni is a singer who is of mixed African-American and Korean parentage.
Hāfu is a Japanese language term used to refer to a person born in Japan with half Asian and half non-Asian ancestry. The word can also be used to describe anyone with mixed-racial ancestry in general
Amerasian
…American expatriate or U.S. Government Employee (Regular or Contract)) and whose mother is or was, an Asian National." The term is commonly applied to half Japanese children fathered by a U.S. serviceman based in Japan, as well as half Korean children fathered by veterans of the Korean War or stationary…
Koxinga was a Chinese monarch who was hāfu Japanese.
Naomi Watanabe, actress, comedian, fashion designer (Taiwanese / Japanese)