Otaru

The Suiso Frontier, the ship Granholm toured Friday as it was docked in the port of Otaru, is the world’s only liquefied hydrogen marine carrier.

The first performer of Asian descent to win an Academy Award for acting, Umeki was born in Otaru, Japan, and began her career as a nightclub singer during World War II. Making her way to New York in the mid-1950s, she quickly got a record contract and a regular spot on the TV variety show “Arthur Godfrey and His Friends.”

Her first produced screenplay was “The Keeping Room,” a Civil War-era drama that first premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru and directed by Daniel Barber.

And Otaru’s Mad is increasingly emboldened as the story continues — the film’s only acknowledgment of the larger issues at stake in the war.

Marling's Augusta and Otaru's Mad essentially become parents to Steinfeld's Louise, a callow teenager torn brutally out of her sheltered view of the world.