This image shows Kiyoshi (Kiyo) Sakahara (1920-2013), a leader in Seattle’s Japanese American community. She attended the University of Washington majoring in chemistry, but shortly before graduation her studies were interrupted by the forced removal of Japanese Americans. Sakahara was incarcerated in the Puyallup Assembly Center, then the Minidoka concentration camp. Sakahara and her family obtained early release and she ran a restaurant in Salt Lake City to pay for return to Seattle. After coming back to Seattle, Sakahara became a civic activist. She was active with the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, Jackson St. Community Council, Children's Home Society, the Japan America Society, and the Family Counseling Service. Sakahara also organized a group through the YWCA to assist young women returning from Japanese American incarceration after World War II. In 2008, Sakahara received her bachelor's degree from UW along with 200 classmates who were also forcibly relocated while studying at UW during the war.

Caption information source: “Kiyo Sakahara,” obituary, retrieved from https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/seattle-wa/kiyo-sakahara-8170055.