Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of mediums, including painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. [Read More]

Masami Nagasawa is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. She has performed in many movies and television dramas including Crying out Love, In the Center of the World, Dragon Zakura and Proposal Daisakusen. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2006. [Read More]

For 2012, the Asian American Media Award is presented to Janet Yang. As a Hollywood producer with a “long, deep relationship with China” and as a cultural ambassador, Yang travels back and forth from LA and China to link the creative and business worlds of the East and the West together. [Read More]