Credits

Funder

The Nippon Foundation
Yohei Sasakawa, President
Ayako Sono, Chairperson

Coordinator

Japanese American National Museum
Irene Y. Hirano, Director & Chief Executive Officer
Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, and Project Principal, Nikkei Legacy Project

Website development and design

rorym.com
Graphic Designer & Project Lead | Rory J. Matthews
Programmer | Alastair Martindale
Flash Programmer | Will Matthews
Image Processor | Pamela Meredith

Website production

Executive Producer & Project Manager | James M. Bower
Web Programmer | Geoffrey Jost
Project Coordinator | Yoko Nishimura
Usability Testing | Ashley La Frenais, Panergi

Discover Nikkei Project Team

John Esaki, Robyn Hamada Gilmore, Arthur Hansen Ph.D., Karin Higa, Lloyd Inui, Sojin Kim Ph.D., Carol Komatsuka, Vicky Murakami-Tsuda, Azusa Oda, Cristine Noriko Paschild, Janis Tanji Wong, Eriko Yamamoto Ph.D.

Video life histories

Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center: John Esaki, Director; Akira Boch, Ann Kaneko, Masaki Miyagawa, Lani Shibayama
Art Nomura, Professor, School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University
Digital processing and hosting
Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project: Tom Ikeda, Director; Geoffrey Froh; Dana Hoshide

Affiliates

Arizona State University, Asian Pacific American Studies Program
Thomas Nakayama, Director
Karen Kuo, Academic Associate
Karen Leong, Affiliate Faculty, Asian Pacific American Studies Program; Assistant Professor, Women's Studies Program
Chicago Japanese American Historical Society
Jean Mishima, President
Mary L. Doi, Board Member
Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project
Tom Ikeda, Director
Geoff Froh, Technical Manager
Japanese American Service Committee of Chicago
Jean Fujiu, Executive Director
Deborah Mieko Burns, Archivist, Legacy Center
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
James Heron, Executive Director
Constance L. Sugiyama, Esq., Special Advisor; Senior Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
National Japanese American Historical Society
Rosalyn Tonai, Executive Director
Chiori Santiago, Editor
National Japanese American Veterans Council (NJAVC)
Walter Ozawa, Chairman
Calvin Ninomiya, 1st Deputy Chairman
Ryan Kawailani Ozawa
Fred Murakami, Former Chairman
New York University, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute
Jack Kuo-Wei Tchen, Director; Associate Professor of History & Individualized Leaning; The Faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Gallatin School Laura Chen-Schultz, Deputy Director
Daniel H. Inouye, Ph.D. Candidate in History
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center
June Arima Schumann, Executive Director
Smithsonian Institution, Asian Pacific American Program
Franklin Odo, Ph.D., Director, Asian Pacific American Program; Curator, Cultural History, National Museum of American History
Stanford University, Asian American Studies Program
David Palumbo-Liu, Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature; Asian American Studies
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa: Hamilton Library and Department of American Studies
Dennis Ogawa, Ph.D., Chair, Department of American Studies
Diane Perushek, University Librarian, Hamilton Library
Chihiro Komine, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies
Mandy Westfall, Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies Department

Project Committee

Akemi Kikumura-Yano, Ph.D., Chair
Richard Hiromichi Kosaki, Ph.D. Chancellor Emeritus, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa; President Emeritus, Tokai International College
Mitchell T. Maki, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., Acting Dean, College of Health and Human Services, California State University, Los Angeles
Takashi Makinodan, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles; Health Science Office, VA
Francis Y. Sogi, Esq., Life Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Richard J. Wood, Ph.D., President, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Ex-Officio:
Irene Hirano, President & Chief Executive Officer, Japanese American National Museum
Shuichi Ohno, Director of International Affairs, The Nippon Foundation
Mizuki Suga, Program Officer, The Nippon Foundation

Key Advisors

James A. Hirabayashi, Ph.D., Chief Advisor, Nikkei Legacy Project
Lloyd Inui, Senior Advisor, Nikkei Legacy Project

Consultants and Institutional Participants

Eiichiro Azuma, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Lane R. Hirabayashi, Ph.D., Professor of Asian American and Ethnic Studies, University of California at Riverside
Roberto Hirose, President of APN-Chile, Sociedad Japonesa de Beneficencia de Chile; Vice President, Corporacion Nikkei Region de Valparaiso
Masako Iino, Professor of History and American Studies, Tsuda College
Audrey Kobayashi, Professor, Department of Geography, Queen's University
Shigeru Kojima, Researcher, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Yokohama International Center, Japanese Overseas Migration Museum
Janice Koyama, Interim University Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles
Teruko I. Kumei, Professor, English Department, Shirayuri College
Yoshihiro Miki, Senior Curator, National Museum, Kyushu
Amelia Morimoto, Board Member, Peru Asia Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Major National University of San Marcos)
Robert A. Nakamura, Director, Center for Ethnocommunications, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Niiya, Bibliographer / Researcher
Masato Ninomiya, Esq., Professor, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo
Art Nomura, Professor, School of Film and Television, Loyola Marymount University
Celia Oi, President, Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil
Gary Y. Okihiro, Ph.D., Professor, International and Public Affairs, Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University
Yasuo Sakata, Director, International Center, Osaka Gakuin University
Reiko Takami, Website Developer / Archivist
Yasuko Takezawa, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology, Institute for Research for Humanities, Kyoto University
Masao Yamada, Vice President, Sociedad Japonesa de Beneficencia de Chile

Image Credits

What is Nikkei?: Media Intro
Kanezō Sakoda was the first Japanese immigrant in Paraguay, shown here with his family in Japan, 1912. (Collection of Fernando Sakoda)
Driver’s license of Ryoko Miyagui, which he had to obtain in order to be a chauffeur, July 25, 1921. (Collection of Asociación Universitaria Nikkei)
These women were among the first Japanese immigrants to arrive in Brazil on the ship Kasato Maru on June 18, 1908. (Collection of Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil)
Members of a Japanese agricultural settlement in Chaco province, Argentina, 1926. (Collection of Asociación Japonesa en Argentina)
Bananas were largely cultivated by the Japanese immigrants in the Ribeira River Valley (Southern part of São Paulo) in the 1930s. (Collection of Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil)
Death of a soldier. Family portrait at Poston concentration camp, western Arizona, 1942-45. (Gift of Eric Saul, Japanese American National Museum [96.314.21])
Delegation of Paraguayan baseball players, 1974. (Collection of Centro Nikkei Paraguayo)
César Ichikawa and Los Doltons, a popular Sansei musical group, Peru, 1966. (Collection of the Ichikawa Family)
Traditional Japanese dancing is enjoyed by the residents of Assistencia Social Dom José Gaspar (Ikoi no Sono), a home for the elderly in São Paulo, 1980. (Photograph by Yuji Kusuno. Collection of Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil)
Folk singer Angelica Harada, Peru, ca. 1960s. (Collection of the Harada family)
Anti-Vietnam War demonstration on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1972: (left to right) Kenji Kudo, Kiyoko Shibasawa, unknown, Mike Murase, unknown, Mike Yamamoto, Gary Uyekawa, Joy Yamasaki. (Collection of Visual Communications)
A celebration parade held along the central avenues of Buenos Aires on August 1998, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Friendship, Commercial and Navigation Treaty between Argentina and Japan, signed in 1898. (Collection of Asociación Universitaria Nikkei)
Asian American performance artist Nobuko Miyamoto Betserai (center) with her husband Tarabu Betserai (left), son Kamau Ayubbi and granddaughter Asiyah Ayubbi. Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1998. (Gift of Nobuko Miyamoto. Japanese American National Museum [98.363.2])

Nikkei Resources
Art & design icon: Henry Sugimoto, Self Portrait in Camp, 1943. Los Angeles, Japanese American National Museum. (Gift of Madeleine Sugimoto and Naomi Tagawa. Japanese American National Museum [92.97.5])
Business & work icon: Dry-cleaner Usina Nippônica of Yoshikawa Kyoto at Vergueiro street in the 1930s. (Collection of Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil)
Education icon: Classroom at Lima Nikko School, Lima, Peru, 1924. (Collection of Museo Conmemorativo de la Inmigración Japonesa en el Perú)
Food & agriculture icon: Oil painting byTomoo Handa of Japanese immigrants working on the coffee plantation, 1958. (Collection of Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil.)
Gender, sexuality & family icon: Asian American performance artist Nobuko Miyamoto Betserai (center) with her husband Tarabu Betserai (left), son Kamau Ayubbi and granddaughter Asiyah Ayubbi. Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1998. (Gift of Nobuko Miyamoto. Japanese American National Museum [98.363.2])
Immigration & citizenship icon: A recruitment poster promoting Japanese emigration to South America, ca. 1925. Recruitment was conducted by the Overseas Development Company (Kaigai Kogyō Kabushiki Kaisha) established in 1917, in order to cope with the severe restrictions imposed on Japanese immigration to the U.S. (Collection of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Documents Office.)
Media & entertainment icon: Sansei singer Karen Ito is the winner of many Brazilian karaoke contests. She went to Japan to seek a professional singing career. 1993. (Photo by Edson Komiya. Museu Histórico da Imigração Japonesa no Brasil.)
Politics & government icon: Imperial Highnesses of Japan signing official document commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Japanese immigration to Paraguay, September 1986. (Collection of Emi Kasamatsu)
Religion icon: Father José Ma. Ramirez and children in the first communion. (Collection of Asociación México Japonesa, A.C.)
Science & technology icon: "Self-Portrait" by Toyo Miyatake c.1930s. (Gift of the Miyatake Family. Japanese American National Museum [93.60.10])
Sports icon:
War & resistance icon: Anti-Vietnam War demonstration on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, 1972: (left to right) Kenji Kudo, Kiyoko Shibasawa, unknown, Mike Murase, unknown, Mike Yamamoto, Gary Uyekawa, Joy Yamasaki. (Collection of Visual Communications)
References icon: Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory, rstockli@climate.gsfc.nasa.gov (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov; http://www.iac.ethz.ch/staff/stockli)
Directory of Nikkei collection icon: Gift of the Saito Family, Japanese American National Museum [94.49][94.6][97.26][7.301])
Lesson plan database icon: Collection of Japan International Cooperation Agency
Military experience database icon: U.S. Army photo. Courtesy of Harold Harada [NRC.1997.94.37])

Software Credits

Drupal
MediaWiki
Mnogosearch