The Washington Post and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

She now lives in Los Angeles and continues to create her beautiful dolls.she began to develop her own style that was more akin to sculpture than traditional doll-making.

At the end of a two-month process.No other doll-maker uses this technique.so she is the only artist making dolls using this method today.

and employ a unique technique that will soon be lost to the world.and that through this transformation the community will flourish.

their faces and sometimes even the gentle tilt of their heads suggest strong emotions and deep philosophical concepts beneath the surface.

Koyanagi was born in 1932 into the Muraoka doll-making family in Tokyo.a civil rights activist who objected to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Korematsu for his staunch advocacy for civil liberties and fight for freedom.Korematsus legacy by committing ourselves to equity and against cruelty.

a civil rights champion who resisted the unjust removal of Japanese Americans to incarceration camps and dedicated his life to fighting for thousands of Japanese Americans wrongfully detained during World War II.the Supreme Court ruled that the internment of all Japanese Americans was justified by military necessity.