1. Biography

2. References

Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909{{spaced ndash}}2001) was a Japanese-American writer and activist for numerous political and social causes. A labor activist in both the United States and Japan, Akiya was also an intellectual figure in the Japanese-American community.

Biography

Born in 1909 in San Francisco, California, Akiya spent the early years of his life in Japan, where he was first sent to receive an education at the age of six.^[1] Politically conscious since his student years, the staunchly leftist Akiya immigrated to the United States out of opposition to Japanese militarism in the decades preceding World War II. During World War II, he was interned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah.^[2]

A member of the Japanese American Citizens League, the Communist Party USA, and the United Furniture Workers of America, Akiya wrote for a variety of both American and Japanese periodicals and contributed to the Hokubei Shimpo, a Japanese-language newspaper in the United States.^[1] His essays, fiction, and an autobiography were published in The New York Bungei, a Japanese-language magazine Akiya helped found in 1959.^[1]

In 1987, Akya received the Martin Luther King Award of New York State.^[3]

References

• History of Mansfield, Arkansas
• History of Mansfield, Louisiana
• History of Mansfield, Ohio
• History of Mansfield, Texas
• History of Manson, Iowa
• History of Mansoura, Egypt
• History of Mantador, North Dakota
• History of Manteca, California
• History of Manter, Kansas
• History of Manti, Utah
• History of Manton, Michigan
• History of Mantua
• History of Mantua, Alabama
• History of manufactured gas
• History of Manvel, North Dakota
• History of Manzanillo, Colima
• History of Manzanillo, Cuba
• History of Manzanita, Oregon
• History of Manzhouli
• History of Manzini, Swaziland
• History of Maoming
• History of Maple Grove, Minnesota
• History of Maple Heights, Ohio
• History of Maple Hill, Kansas
• History of Maple Lake, Minnesota