YUJI ICHIOKA

'Yuji Ichioka,' born on June 23, 1936 in San Francisco, California, is an American historian best known for his work in ethnic studies, particularly Asian American Studies. Adjunct Professor Yuji Ichioka (History and Asian American Studies). M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, 1968. External funding: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Prizes and awards: Best Book Award, History/Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles Times book Prize in History, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University, Selected publications: The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrant, 1885-1924 (1988, The Free Press), “Japanese Immigrant Nationalism: The Issei and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941” (1990), Beyond National Boundaries: The Complexity of Japanese-American History (1998, Amerasia Journal), A Buried Past II: A Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection (1999, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press).
He coined the term "Asian American" to help unify different Asian ethnic groups (e.g. Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, etc.), and was considered the preeminent scholar of Japanese American history.
He served as a senior researcher at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for many years, from approximately 1969 to his death on September 1, 2002 at the age of 66.

★ UCLA Prof. Yuji Ichioka, the Creator of Asian America