Born February 18, 1933 Tokyo, Japan Artist, writer, and performer Yoko Ono. © . "When I first came out there was a lot of xenophobia [fear of foreigners] and...

Yoko Ono Lennon (小野 洋子 Ono Yōko; however, in Japan her name is generally rendered in katakana – オノ・ヨーコ Ono Yōko – rather than kanji), born February 18, 1933, is a Japanese artist and musician. She is known for her marriage to...

Yoko Ono doesn't see many parallels between today's celebrity war protesters and her late husband John Lennon's activism against the Vietnam War _ but says that's because the times today are so different."I think there are many people who want world peace and want to...

Yoko Ono urged the world to give peace a chance Tuesday as she unveiled a monument in memory of her husband, John Lennon.Ono lit up the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy island near the Icelandic capital's harbor on what would have been Lennon's 67th birthday.The...

Artist Yoko Ono hung a wish for love and peace in the world from a tree she dedicated Monday at the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden.The "Wish Tree for Washington D.C." is part of an ongoing project Ono started in the 1990s to encourage the public...

John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment after deciding he wanted to return home to see his son rather than go out for dinner, Yoko Ono said in an interview broadcast Sunday."We were returning from the studio, and I said:...