Miiko Taka
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Miiko Shikata, known professionally as Miiko Taka, was an American actress. She was known for her film and television roles from the late 1950s until the early 1980s. Her best known role was as an ele
Taka in a publicity photo for Cry for Happy (1961)
English signature of Miiko Taka
Taka in 1958.
Nisei
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Nisei is a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America and South America to specify the ethnically Japanese children born in the new country to Japanese-born immigrants, or Issei. The Ni
Miiko Taka
…dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the romantic drama Sayonara (1957). Taka was born on July 24, 1925 in Seattle, but raised in Los Angeles as a Nisei; her parents had immigrated from Japan. In 1942, following the signing of Executive Order 9066, she was interned with her family at the Gila River War…
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A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil. It reads: "Let's go to South America [Brazil highlighted] with your entire family."
The children of these Japanese Brazilian (Nipo-brasileiros) immigrants would be called Nisei.