Tama Tokuda (née Inouye; July 2, 1920 – August 31, 2013) was a Japanese American performer and writer.
As a young adult, she was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho.
[1] As a child, she attended Japanese language[2] and dance classes after school, and performed at the Nippon Kan Theatre.
[3][4] After graduating from high school, she began attending the University of Washington to study literature, though she was unable to complete her degree before the beginning of World War II, during which she was incarcerated at the Minidoka War Relocation Center.
[3] She also began using "storytelling and theater to share deeply and powerfully about her incarceration experience.