Oregon Nikkei Endowment
@Oregon_NikkeiLa misión de Oregon Nikkei Endowment es preservar y honrar la historia y la cultura de los japoneses estadounidenses en el noroeste del Pacífico, educar al público sobre la experiencia japonés-estadounidense durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y abogar por la protección de los derechos civiles de todos los estadounidenses. .
El Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center es un proyecto del Oregon Nikkei Endowment. Sirve como punto focal para la preservación y el intercambio de la historia y la cultura de la comunidad japonesa americana. Uno de los capítulos más importantes de la experiencia japonés-estadounidense es el internamiento forzoso de más de 110.000 personas de ascendencia japonesa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esto alimenta su compromiso con la preservación de los derechos civiles de todos los estadounidenses. El Legacy Center es un lugar para actividades culturales y de investigación y un recurso invaluable para la exploración de las experiencias de los estadounidenses de origen japonés y su papel en la comunidad multicultural de Oregón.
Actualizado en diciembre de 2009
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Oregon Nikkei History: A Brief Summary - Part 3
4 de junio 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 mayo 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 mayo 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 diciembre 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 …
