Masako Takahashi is a Sansei visual artist and president of the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation. She was born in January 1944 in the Topaz concentration camp in Utah, raised in San Francisco, California, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in art. During World War II, Takahashi’s parents and other relatives were incarcerated without due process by the US government at Tanforan racetrack in San Bruno, California, then at Topaz concentration camp in Utah. Prior to the war, her mother, Tomoye Nozawa Takahashi, graduated from UC Berkeley, and her father, Henri Hiroyuki Takahashi, from Pomona College. After release from Topaz, her parents created the Takahashi Trading Company, a successful wholesale and retail company, and became philanthropists by forming the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation. At age four, Masako Takahashi won a national art contest and has continued making art since then. By age sixteen, Takahashi won a scholarship to attend the San Francisco Art Institute, then called the California School of Fine Arts. In the early 1960s, Takahashi studied at Bard College in New York, at San Francisco State University, and at UC Berkeley, prior to traveling around the world for two years and living in Paris for a year. In 1970, she moved to Los Angeles, married writer Tony Cohan, and created a successful fashion business called Masako. In 1984, they moved to Mexico to work full time on personal art projects. In the 1990s, Takahashi produced three books on Mexican crafts and design, and she began exhibiting her paintings in galleries and museums. Taking inspiration from women in Mexico, she experimented with embroidery and started using her own hair as a medium. After her father’s death in 2002, Takahashi turned to Japanese traditions in her work, including black kimono installations called "Generations." Divorced, Takahashi moved to San Francisco in 2004. Upon discovery and unearthing of the Wakasa Memorial Stone in 2021, Takahashi and others created the Wakasa Memorial Committee to rally for care of the stone and professional stewardship at Topaz for the site of James Wakasa’s murder. In this interview, Takahashi discusses all of the above, with emphasis on her travels, her art career and experiences, and her activism especially regarding the Wakasa Memorial Stone.