Mary Yamashiro Otani (Japanese: メアリー山城大谷 Mearī Yamashiro Ōtani) (July 5, 1923 in Berkeley, California – August 22, 2005) was a Richmond, California community activist.
[1] She was a student at UC Berkeley when she was forcibly removed to an internment center for Japanese Americans following the enactment of Executive Order 9066.
[1] Later a Quaker group persuaded the authorities to allow college-age students to continue their studies at East Coast schools.
[1] Yamashiro then attend Boston University where she met her husband Bill.
[1] She monitored the Richmond City Council and the Ports Commission for the League of Women Voters.