{"id":811,"date":"2010-10-13T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=811"},"modified":"2014-07-30T17:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:52:49","slug":"famous-people-of-japanese-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/famous-people-of-japanese-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous People of Japanese Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People of Japanese descent have been contributing to society in many positive ways. Here are some people of Japanese descent that are famous :<\/p>\n<p>Kristi Yamaguchi is the great grandchildren of Japanese immigrants in the U.S. Her claim to fame came as a world class figure skater. Her achievements showed younger girls that they could be just as good at sports as the boys.<\/p>\n<p>Devon Aoki is a supermodel. Her dad is Japanese and that\u2019s where she gets her Japanese lineage. Devon\u2019s appeal as a mixed Japanese model has proved that beauty is diverse.<\/p>\n<p>Francis Fukuyama is a prominent philosopher and author. He is best known for writing the book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">End of History and the Last Man<\/span> and received his Ph.D. from Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Apolo Anton Ono is an eight time medalist in speed skating. Ono\u2019s father is Japanese, which makes Ono Japanese American.<\/p>\n<p>George Takei is a Japanese American whose family was interned in relocation camps in WWII. Takei is best known for his role as Sulu in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Star Trek<\/span>, but he is also a gay rights activist as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"280\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/10\/George_Takei-280x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/10\/George_Takei-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2010\/10\/George_Takei.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><p>People of Japanese descent have been contributing to society in many positive ways. Here are some people of Japanese descent that are famous : Kristi Yamaguchi is the great grandchildren of Japanese immigrants in the U.S. Her claim to fame came as a world class figure skater. Her achievements showed younger girls that they could&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/famous-people-of-japanese-descent\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11886],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-japanese-people"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}