 J-Pop singers Hikaru Utada and Joe Inoue were both born in the United States but gained their fame in Japan.Japanese Americans first made an impact in Olympic sports in the late 1940s and in the 1950s.Harold Sakata won a weightlifting silver medal in the 1948 Olympics, while Japanese Americans Tommy Kono (weightlifting), Yoshinobu Oyakawa (100-meter backstroke), and Ford Konno (1500-meter freestyle) each won gold and set Olympic records in the 1952 Olympics.