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Sakaye Shigekawa was born on 6 January, 1913 in South Pasadena, California, is an American physician. Discover Sakaye Shigekawa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 100 years old?

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Occupation physician
Age 100 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 6 January 1913
Birthday 6 January
Birthplace South Pasadena, California
Date of death 18 October, 2013
Died Place Los Angeles
Nationality United States

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1913

Sakaye Shigekawa (January 6, 1913 – October 18, 2013) was an American physician who specialized in obstetrics.

Born to Japanese-American parents, she was imprisoned and forced to live and work at an internment camp in California, providing medical care to fellow Japanese-American internees during World War II.

Shigekawa was born in 1913 in South Pasadena, California.

Her father, Tsunetaro Shigekawa, worked as a gardener and a hog farmer, while her mother, Shina (Nagasaki) Shigekawa, was a picture bride; both had migrated to the United States from Shikoku.

She and her twin sister, younger sister, and younger brother grew up in a house on Central Avenue in Los Angeles, in a neighborhood that housed numerous Japanese Americans.

She was inspired to become a physician when her father was hospitalized for pneumonia.

After graduating from Jefferson High School, she studied at University of Southern California (USC) and then the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago.

1935

She had wanted to complete her medical degree at USC, but when she applied in 1935 the university did not admit women to the medical program.

1940

She graduated from Loyola in 1940.

Shigekawa completed her medical internship at Mercy Hospital in Bay City, Michigan, where she became the second female medical intern.

1941

She began her residency at Los Angeles County Hospital but all of the hospital's Japanese-American staff were dismissed in 1941 in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

She then worked briefly at Seaside Memorial Hospital before being forced to move to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, a processing center for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, where she was one of seven imprisoned physicians of Japanese background who provided care for 17,000 fellow inmates.

Shigekawa was the youngest of the doctors at 29 years old, and the only woman.

When she was ordered to move to Wyoming to be interned and work at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, another internment camp for Japanese Americans, she sent letters to the government saying that she refused to go and that if forced to move there she would not work.

She was subsequently released to live in Chicago, where she finished her residency in obstetrics at Walter Memorial Hospital.

1948

She completed her training in Chicago before returning to Los Angeles in 1948, where she practiced for more than 50 years.

She worked at a private practice with another woman physician until 1948, when she returned to Los Angeles.

1949

Shigekawa set up a medical practice on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood in 1949.

1977

In the same year, she began working at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles, where she was the first Japanese-American staff member, and in 1977 she became the first woman to be elected president of the hospital.

1993

In 1993, Shigekawa received Loyola University's Stritch Award "for outstanding research or humanitarian contributions in medicine".

She served as president of Japanese Community Health Inc. and was a member of the Japanese American Medical Association.

2000

She worked at her Hollywood practice for more than 50 years, and in 2000 she estimated that throughout her career she had delivered between 20,000 and 30,000 babies.

2013

Shigekawa died in Los Angeles on October 18, 2013, aged 100.