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

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

American Tapestry: 25 Stories from the Collection

chanami

American Tapestry presents an intimate look into an ethnic community. At the same time, it celebrates the lives of everyday individual Americans who embody the “We” in “We the People” …

online exhibition

The 21st Century Museum: Significant artifacts selected by Japanese American National Museum Volunteers

JANM

Japanese American National Museum staff and interns worked with volunteers to create a series of 30-second digital video shorts sharing the volunteer’s personal stories related to artifacts from the exhibition …

community history

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

Japanese Hospital: Caring for the Pre-War Nikkei Community Program

editor

Presented Sunday, April 11, 2010 at the Tateuchi Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum. For the early Issei immigrants, access to medical care was limited. Five Issei doctors …

online exhibition

Mitsuru Grill

stephvarela

These are photos of Mitsuru Grill on 1st Street of the Little Tokyo disrtrict in Los Angeles. The restaurant serves American and Japanese dishes as well as fusion food. The …

community history

2009 Tanabata Festival

ylkawashima

What better way to connect to the community than through beautiful craft work? Surprisingly Nisei Week, the Little Tokyo Public Safety Association's Brian Kito, and the Japanese American National Museum …

community history

Tanabata at JANM 2009

ylkawashima

After witnessing the beautifully elaborate Tanabata decorations in Sao Paulo, the Discover Nikkei staff who went to Brazil in 2007 asked, Yoshihito Yonezawa, president of Nanka Miyagi Kenjinkai if he …

other

Bridging Generations: The UCLA Nikkei Student Union

ylkawashima

In the fall of my first quarter at UCLA I decided to expand my knowledge of the Japanese American community in a fun, explorative way: the Nikkei Student Union (NSU). …

other

Little Tokyo Community Profiles

mpitelka

This collection includes materials from the five businesses that students in the Occidental College Asian Studies seminar "Japanophilia" (2009) profiled through their collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum's Discover …

community history

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