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My Journey to Discover the Legacy of my Grandma, Yuri Kochiyama

mkochiyama

This album is a collection of personal pictures as well as pictures gathered from the internet and the Japanese American National Museum archives that I have compiled to illustrate my …

family history
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Taken: Oregonians Arrested after Pearl Harbor

Oregon_Nikkei

This album illustrates the experiences of families in Oregon taken into custody and imprisoned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DoJ) as a result of …

online exhibition
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Fortune Cookie Production at Benkyodo, San Francisco - ca 1914-1941 - WWII - 1946-1958

garyono

This Album contains illustrations, photographs and explaination of what I remember of Benkyodo's production of fortune cookies after WWII.

This is a supplement to the two-part essay,  "Japanese American Fortune Cookie," I wrote …

Japanese American business history
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The Heart Mountain Barracks Project

gkkyamaguchi

In 1942, hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans, living on the West Coast were forced to live in internment camps due to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066.  After the …

community history
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History of HIMAWARI-KAI, Chile

Himawari

ひまわり会の歴史 チリでは1960年代に二世男性の配偶者として来チリした女性が増え、長期滞在者の夫人達と活発に活動していたが、その後長期滞在者の夫人達が独立した婦人会「コピウエ会」を組織したため、永住者の夫人の会としての活動は途絶えた。 1980年代に幼児の日本語教育のためにも日本女性が集まり、1986年に日本語教室設置のために永住者の婦人会が発足された。

community history
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The Little Tokyo Café

Jamal_Fahim

The Little Tokyo Café is a small, family run restaurant that is located on N. San Pedro St. Its owner, Mitsuko Minohara, is a second generation Japanese immigrant whose mother …

community history
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Part of these albums:
Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

Five Views of Redress: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary

editor

The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 culminated almost two decades of struggle to win official government acknowledgement of the violation of Japanese American constitutional rights during World War II. The …

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Bill Shishima

chowaa

Bill Shishima, a docent at the Japanese American National Museum, was interned at Heart Mountain during World War II. This collection gives a brief look into his life featuring pictures …

family history
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Lloyd Evans Collection (95.73.1)

HNRC

Color amateur footage of activities at Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming filmed by Reverend Stanley T. Evans who visited Rev. Donald Toriumi at Heart Mountain in 1945. Composed of home …

community history
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Pre- and Post- World War II Picnic Jackson Park Chicago

intrepidmouse

Jackson Park, located on the south side of Chicago, houses the only Japanese garden in the city. In 1890, it was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition. The park …

community history
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