A future Senator of this ethnicity served in a regiment composed of men of this ethnicity whose motto was "Go for broke" and (*) lost and arm doing so - that regiment, the 442nd Infantry, won over 9,000 Purple Hearts in just 3 years of service.
A U.S. Senator of this ethnicity sponsored the legislation to create the US Institute for Peace. A Canadian semiotician of this ethnicity quipped "We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square" while running an outsider campaign for Senate in California in 1976, which he somehow won; he also wrote the linguistics book Language in Thought and Action. A future Senator of this ethnicity served in a regiment composed of men of this ethnicity whose motto was "Go for broke" and (*) lost and arm doing so - that regiment, the 442nd Infantry, won over 9,000 Purple Hearts in just 3 years of service. A Senator of this ethnicity announced his intention to run for a record tenth term in the 2016 election, but died before he could do so; he was succeeded by Brian Schatz in 2012. Women of this ethnicity were the majority of "picture brides." For 10 points, give the ethnicity of Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye, who was a Nisei.
A U.S. Senator of this ethnicity sponsored the legislation to create the US Institute for Peace.
Japanese Americans [or Nikkei-Amerikajin; accept Nihonjin or Nikkei-Kanadajin since S.I. Hayakawa was I guess just a Canadian at some point]