<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Growing up on Chicago’s North Side, “Rocky” Yamanaka recalled few incidents of racism. “Me and my sister were the only Japanese. But we were curiosities to most of the Caucasians there,” he said.
<wm>Rocky and his sister Yumi grew up in Little Tokyo in Little Tokyo and later became the first Japanese families of color in major Japanese American communities in Los Angeles and Oakland, and later became teachers, doctors, and artists.
Yamanaka was an early advocate for equal opportunities and civil rights activism during a time of significant racial tensions in Los Angeles during the mid 1950s, and later became a writer and entrepreneur.
Rocky is a writer and entrepreneur.
Rocky, who has visited </wm>45 different countries including 65 countries within Asia and Africa during a decade on “Rocky and T