Revista del Museo Nacional Japonés Americano
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Every Branch Has a Personality of Its Own – A Profile of Chiye Tomihiro
21 de abril de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Chiye Tomihiro is used to being interviewed. She testified before the Commission of Citizens (CWRIC) in 1981, her memories are in several oral history collections, and she has appeared on TV and in magazine stories. Her grace reflects both her experience and her nature. Poised and at ease, she offers cold drinks to visitors in her lakefront Chicago apartment. She wastes no time. “I was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1924. The first thing that I mention to people from …
I DON’T COMPLAIN – A Profile of Art Morimitsu
14 de abril de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
The story of Chicagoan Art Morimitsu’s life is the story of a community—the story of Japanese American immigrants whose sons and daughters triumphed over hardships and discrimination to make their way as exemplary Americans. At age 86, Morimitsu knew that his life’s story was the stuff of legend. In a June, 1998 interview his mischievous grin and twinkling eyes indicate the pleasure that it gives him to recall the events of his long life of hard work and service. Morimitsu’s …
Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 2
28 de marzo de 2014 • Eiichiro Azuma
Read Part 1 >>Japanese American Sumo in the New Era: From Issei to Nisei The 1924 Immigration Act was an important turning point in the history of Japanese Americans. With the termination of new Japanese immigration and the exodus of many Issei, the population of first generation immigrants decreased rapidly, and the average age of the Nikkei drastically changed. By 1930, the second generation made up more than 50 percent of the entire Japanese American population. While the majority of …
Japanese American Sumo in the Continental United States, 1900-1941 - Part 1
27 de marzo de 2014 • Eiichiro Azuma
Sumo—in which two hefty, virtually naked men push, shove, and throw each other—probably looks like an exotic sport to most Americans. Young Japanese Americans, like other Americans, are likely to think that sumo is part of traditional Japanese culture, not Japanese American culture. Yet before World War II sumo was an important part of life in Japanese American communities, especially in Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley. Issei and Sumo: From a Village Tradition to a Locus of Issei …
Kasuri to Palaka, Journey from Japanese Villages to Hawaiian Plantations, 1885-1941
18 de febrero de 2010 • Barbara Kawakami
When I first began my study, my objective was narrowly defined to describe and to collect samples of work clothing worn by Issei (first-generation Japanese) men and women on the sugarcane and pineapple plantations in Hawaii. I began to interview as many Issei men and women as I could find who had worked in sugarcane or pineapple fields. As I conducted the interview the scope of my study became broader, my interviews unearthed valuable information about other types of clothing …
Memories Too Painful to Remember; Lessons Too Important to Forget
21 de febrero de 2008 • Mitchell T. Maki
Six years ago, we all watched the terrifying images of passenger planes crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the carnage and death of fellow Americans, and the damage to our national sense of identity and security. Throughout that first day and the weeks to follow, I kept wondering: Who were these attackers? Why did they choose such a devastating method of killing innocent people? Most importantly, I asked what our response would be. The words of …
