Lederer, Midori Shimanouchi, 1923-2005
<p>Midori Shimanouchi Lederer, who as founder and president emeritus of Japanese American Social Services Inc. helped provide social services to Asians and Asian-Americans in New York, died on March 9 at her home in Manhattan. She was 81.</p>
<p>Midori Shimanouchi was born in Fresno, Calif., on April 11, 1923.</p>
<p>At age 18, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she was interned with her family at Topaz, Utah. Two years later, she came to New York, where she worked as a film publicist. She later volunteered with the Lower East Side Center, which helped elderly drug addicts, and with Japanese American Help for the Aging.</p>
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Place: Topaz War Relocation Center
Place: Fresno
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