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Mitsuye Yamada

Name Mitsuye Yamada
Born July 5 1923
Birth Location Fukuoka prefecture, Japan
Generational Identifier

Nisei

Mitsuye May Yamada (1923–) is an acclaimed poet, feminist writer, and human rights activist. Much of Yamada's work draws on the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Early Life and Wartime Incarceration

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