Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles” to push for better roles for Asian American actors, died July 21. He was 72. Mako, whose birth name was Makoto Iwamatsu, was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1933. He moved to the U.S. when he was 15 to … Continue reading Asian American actors career was forged by struggle