I'm a fan of Noguchi because we've had his Akari lights in our home when I was growing up and because he exemplifies someone who is both American and Japanese.
Noguchi also had a bitter war. As a resident of New York, he could have escaped the internment forced on Japanese Americans on the West Coast. In solidarity with them, however, he chose to join them in the camps for seven months in 1942. By the 1950s, he began to investigate a variety of Asian cultures, and -- alongside other modern artists without his ethnic roots -- took cues from Japanese ideas about simplicity and poise.
Thank you for the post about Isamu Noguchi. His artistic achievements are well known. I did not know about his history with the internment and was amazed that it was seven months.