Mari Yoriko Sabusawa

[3] Shortly thereafter, she was allowed to leave for Antioch College in Ohio where she received a degree in political science and international relations.

[2] Through Antioch's cooperative job program, she translated Japanese propaganda for the US intelligence service in Washington DC[3] before attending graduate school at the University of Chicago.

During the early 1950s, she was engaged in community work, especially around questions of civil rights[3] Sabusawa was editor of the American Library Association's Bulletin in Chicago in 1954 when she met her husband.

[6] Sabusawa was encouraged and helped in the research of some of Michener's novels, such as, The Bridge at Andau, Hawaii, and The Source.

Together with her husband, Sabusawa was involved with charitable donations, with main fields of their philanthropy being art and higher education.