Revista do Museu Nacional Nipo-Americano
Esses artigos foram publicados originalmente na revista impressa do Museu Nacional Japonês Americano .
Stories from this series
Um baú cheio de histórias: a coleção Shogo Myaida
19 de Janeiro de 2015 • Japanese American National Museum
Em 1990, dois anos antes de o Museu Nacional Nipo-Americano ser aberto ao público, o curador Brian Niiya examinou um baú velho e surrado em Albertson, Nova York. Um idoso cavalheiro nipo-americano e sua esposa morreram recentemente. A vizinha e amiga da família Gloria Massimo preservou o baú cheio de cartas, papéis, anotações de aula, impressos sobre paisagismo e milhares de fotografias. Instada por Lily Kiyasu, membro fundador do Museu, que conheceu e entrevistou Shogo Myaida e sua esposa Grace, …
Uma infância incomum - um perfil dos portos Suki Terada
8 de Dezembro de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Suki Setsuko Terada Ports é uma mulher franca, com uma risada contagiante e maneiras diretas. Ela é bem conhecida em Nova York como uma ativista dedicada e incansável. Ports dedicou grande parte de sua vida ao serviço comunitário. Nos últimos anos, passou a maior parte do seu tempo ajudando a criar projetos contra a AIDS, incluindo um que atende as comunidades da Ásia e das ilhas do Pacífico na cidade de Nova York. Suki chama sua infância de “incomum”. Seu …
Issei in New York, 1876 – 1941
7 de Julho de 2014 • Eiichiro Azuma
The first Japanese immigrants to New York were quite different from their West Coast counterparts. Initially, the majority of Issei (first generation Japanese in America) came to New York, not to make quick money and return to Japan, but to engage in U.S.-Japan trade and learn Western ways. Many of these New York Issei came from Tokyo and other large cities, rather than from farming prefectures. Japanese Entrepreneurs The first Japanese in New York were ambitious young businessmen. In 1875, …
Community Activism A Family Tradition - Profile of Umeko Kawamoto
23 de Junho de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Umeko Kawamoto is a bright-eyed woman with a radiant smile who enjoys reminiscing about San Diego’s thriving Japanese American community in the years before World War II. She recalls the prewar Japantown, in what is now downtown’s Gaslamp Quarter, as a bustling neighborhood that included grocery stores, restaurants, pool halls, dry goods stores, and hotels. The neighborhood, like Japanese districts all up and down the west coast, was emptied of its residents during World War II and never regained its …
There Wasn’t Anything to Be Afraid of In Those Days – Profile of Aiko Owashi
16 de Junho de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Aiko Owashi, like so many Nisei women, begins an interview with the claim that her life is not interesting; nothing much ever happened to her. She acknowledges that her family is “deeply rooted” in San Diego, and soon is telling stories that illuminate a remarkable history. Owashi’s father, Toraichi Ozaki, came from Wakayama to San Diego at about the turn of the last century. He was, Owashi notes proudly, a charter member of the Ocean View United Church of Christ …
He Kept the Boat Alive – Profile by Harold Ikemura
2 de Junho de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Harold Ikemura loves to tell stories about his years in the fishing fleet. At 83, he recalls with astonishing detail the particulars of his long life and of his years at sea. “I love fishing,” he says with delight. As a teenager, Ikemura went trout fishing along the San Gabriel River with the sons of a prominent Pasadena Japanese American family. Dr. Takejiro Itow, one of the founders of the Japanese hospital in Los Angeles, also had a daughter, Sumi, …