Oregon Nikkei Endowment
@Oregon_NikkeiA missão do Oregon Nikkei Endowment é preservar e honrar a história e a cultura dos nipo-americanos no noroeste do Pacífico, educar o público sobre a experiência nipo-americana durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e defender a proteção dos direitos civis de todos os americanos. .
O Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center é um projeto do Oregon Nikkei Endowment. Serve como ponto focal para a preservação e compartilhamento da história e cultura da comunidade nipo-americana. Um dos capítulos mais importantes da experiência nipo-americana é o internamento forçado de mais de 110.000 pessoas de ascendência japonesa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Isto alimenta o seu compromisso com a preservação dos direitos civis de todos os americanos. O Legacy Center é um local para atividades culturais e de pesquisa e um recurso inestimável para a exploração das experiências dos nipo-americanos e seu papel na comunidade multicultural do Oregon.
Atualizado em dezembro de 2009
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Oregon Nikkei History: A Brief Summary - Part 3
4 de Junho de 2010 • Oregon Nikkei Endowment
Part 2 >>ResettlementAt the end of the war, Japanese Americans had the difficult decision of where to go after they were released from the camps. In most cases, they had no businesses or homes to which to return. Often they faced the choice of returning to communities where they were clearly unwanted, or settling in areas unknown to them. Further limiting opportunities, the Oregon Legislature passed an amended, more restrictive Alien Land Law in 1945, prohibiting Issei from living or …
Oregon Nikkei History: A Brief Summary - Part 2
28 de Maio de 2010 • Oregon Nikkei Endowment
Part 1 >>Second World WarThe relatively tranquil life of the Japanese in Oregon came to an abrupt halt with Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. That very afternoon, the FBI initiated a roundup of Issei community leaders. Iwao Oyama, the publisher of Oshu Nippo, was working on Monday’s issue when the FBI agents came to his office in Japantown and arrested him. A few days later the FBI agents arrested the proprietor of Teikoku Shoten, around the …
Oregon Nikkei History: A Brief Summary - Part 1
21 de Maio de 2010 • Oregon Nikkei Endowment
Early Japanese Settlers in OregonIn 1880 27-year-old Miyo Iwakoshi emigrated from Japan to Oregon with her Scottish husband, Andrew McKinnon, and their adopted daughter, Tama. Although there are records of other Japanese visitors earlier, she was the first to settle in the state. She would be one of few Japanese women in Oregon for many years. She and McKinnon built a steam sawmill near Gresham, and named the new settlement Orient in honor of Miyo. The small town of Orient …
Bill and Sam Naito: A Portland Story
23 de Dezembro de 2009 • Oregon Nikkei Endowment
The narrators of this article are fictional figures created by Oregon Nikkei Endowment to represent the Japanese American community’s perspective on the Sam and Bill Naito story. The events they describe are from factual material and are presented in this narrative as they were for their exhibition. Section I: Before the War In those days before the war, some white people saw us as a “Yellow Peril.” There was a good sized Japanese community in Portland, started by the Issei …
