Emerick Ishikawa
Emerick K. Ishikawa was an American weightlifter from Hawaii. In 1944 he set a world record in the bantamweight class at the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships. He won Amateur Athletic Union championships as a bantamweight in 1944 and 1945, and as a featherweight in 1946 and 1947. In 1947 he also won a bronze medal in the featherweight class of the World Championships. He also competed in the Weightlifting at the [1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 60 kg|men's featherweight event] at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
In 1975 he was inducted into the National Weightlifting Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he was inducted into the Hawaii [Sports Hall of Fame].
He was Japanese-American, and was held for some time at a Japanese American internment camp at Tule [Lake National Monument|Tule Lake] in California.