Nikkei Album

Nikkei Album is a multimedia community storytelling tool. Explore the albums created by our global community and then share and preserve your own personal, family, and community stories!

Recently Published Albums

Slanted Perspectives. MFA Graphic Design Graduate Show/David Toyoshma

toyoshimad

Images from my solo Master's of Fine Arts Exhibition at California State University, Long Beach (April, 2018). My thesis focused on my family and my own experiences confronting racism and ...

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The Poston (Colorado River Relocation Center) Tailor School

RoyKakuda

After the inital trama of imprisonment, the Japanese American inmate community with the help of the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) and the War Relocation Authority (WRA) wanted to to ...

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Surviving Poston's Desert Heat: Cellars, Fans, Ponds, and Gardens

RoyKakuda

We arrived in Poston (Colorado River Relocation Center) in May of 1942.  Everyone was told that the air temperature would rise above 115 deg. F. in the summer.  The water ...

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