Mitsuye Yamada | |
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Born | Mitsuye Yasutake July 5, 1923 Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Empire of Japan (now Japan) |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | |
Occupation(s) | Poet, writer, activist |
Spouse |
Yoshikazu Yamada (m. 1950) |
Children | 4 |
Website | www |
Mitsuye Yamada (born July 5, 1923) is a Japanese American poet, essayist, and feminist and human rights activist. She is one of the first and most vocal Asian American women writers to write about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.