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Irene Hirano Inouye (née Yasutake; October 7, 1948 – April 7, 2020) was an American business executive who was the founding President of the U.S.-Japan Council, a position she held ever since she helped create the organization in 2009 until her death.
The airport in Honolulu has been named after her husband (“a Japanese American Democrat from Hawaii and a World War II veteran”) and is now called Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.
Jul 22, 2020 · On April 7, 2020, I heard that Irene Hirano Inouye, a member of Delta Phi Kappa in the mid-60s, passed away. I was saddened by her passing because she was a person who made a great impact on my life.
Dec 17, 2012 · Maggie Inouye, the Senator’s wife of 57 years, died in 2006. The couple had one son, musician Kenny Inouye. In 2008, Senator Inouye, age 84, married Irene Hirano, the CEO of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
Apr 13, 2020 · Irene Hirano Inouye, who established the nation’s premier Japanese-American museum, in Los Angeles, and who, as a philanthropic leader, helped leverage hundreds of millions of dollars to lift...
Apr 8, 2020 · Hirano Inouye married Hawaii’s longest serving U.S. senator in 2008 when he was 83 and she was 59. She was divorced, and he had been widowed since his wife of nearly 60 years died two years earlier.
Washington – Irene Hirano, head of the U.S.-Japan Council and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, died Tuesday in Los Angeles following an extended illness, the council said Wednesday. She was 71.
