Emerick Ishikawa

Emerick K. Ishikawa (October 23, 1920 – November 26, 2006) was an American weightlifter from Hawaii.

In 1944 he set a world record in the bantamweight class at the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships.

[1] He won Amateur Athletic Union championships as a bantamweight in 1944 and 1945, and as a featherweight in 1946 and 1947.

[4][5] He was Japanese-American, and was held for some time at a Japanese American internment camp at Tule Lake in California.

This biographical article relating to weightlifting in the United States is a stub.