Travel Trailblazer Peggy Mikuni Passes Away

The Japanese American community has lost pioneering businesswoman Peggy Mikuni, who for more than six decades ran a travel agency in Little Tokyo. She passed away earlier this month at the age of 90.

Mikuni worked with her father, Eddie Yamato, in his multi-service employment agency in Denver after World War II. As the eldest of nine children, she was expected to take over his business. Unfortunately, she found that trying to find work for former incarcerees amid postwar racial prejudice and a sluggish economy was difficult and discouraging.

published on September 26, 2019