Joyce Hirohata (b. 1969) is granddaughter of Paul T. Hirohata. Born and raised in San Francisco, she has a B.A. degree in design from the University of California at Los Angeles and holds a M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. Currently she lives in Oakland, California. Paul T. Hirohata (1898–1965) was born in the Fukuoka prefecture in Japan and spent twenty years in the U.S. He earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Whittier College and in the 1930s was the U.S. correspondent for the Japan Times newspaper. In addition to publishing Orations and Essays, he authored several other books, including Zaibei Fukuoka Kenjinshi that documents early Japanese immigrants from the Fukuoka prefecture who came to America at the turn of the century.