THE SUITCASE PROJECT By Kayla Isomura What would you pack if forcibly removed from your home today? The Suitcase Project is a multimedia exhibition asking yonsei and gosei (fourth and fifth generation) Japanese Canadians and Americans what they would pack if uprooted from their homes in a moment’s notice. While these descendants of the internment…
TODAY IS CENSUS DAY! For the first time ever, The Census can be completed online at 2020census.gov! Check out our video below on how responding to the Census will benefit your community. Do you need assistance completing your Census questionnaire online? Please contact us at njahs@njahs.org or melissa@njahs.org with your questions. We are here to help. …
Click here to watch SPECIAL ZOOM BROADCAST EVENT Friday, May 22, at 6PM -7:00PM Pacific Standard Time An International Conversation with Yonsei Canadian curator /photographer Kayla Isomura of The Suitcase Project - In the Era of Covid-19. FREE. Click here to REGISTER for the ZOOM Broadcast The Suitcase Project, photographed by Kayla Isomura, made its…
Click here to watch Join us Saturday for a late afternoon broadcast Date & Time: Sat, June 27, 2020 from 3:30 Pm - 5:00 PM Pacific time (5:30CT, 6:30 ET) Location: Online broadcast Annual Members Meeting -Update & Elections NJAHS Virtual Gallery Tour Poetry Reading- The Journey Continues- Peter Yamamoto Click here to register for…
Click here to watch For the first time ever, NJAHS will Livestream the Annual Awards Tribute on Sat. September 5, 2020 at 5PM. Go to our Givebutter page to WATCH the Annual Awards Tribute and DONATE in real time to contribute to our Event Campaign! REFLECTING BACK Moving Forward JOIN US AS WE HONOR THOSE…
Date / Time Sat. Oct. 17, 11 a.m. - noon Those with physical disabilities were not exempt from being imprisoned. These crutches, made by hand at Gila River, Arizona, are testimony to the hardships endured by the maker, Takato Hamai. This story is the first of four “objects of survival” which 50 Objects will introduce…
Kiyoshi Ina, a two-year-old boy with chicken pox, was comforted by a handmade toy tank sent to him at Tule Lake, California, by his father. They were in different prison camps, separated by 1,000 miles. Learn about this wartime toy and how its story continues to be told. This Saturday, Nov. 7, at 11 a.m.…
Happy Veterans Day from NJAHS!! Join us for a FREE Zoom Broadcast (webinar format) on Saturday, November 14 from 11 -12 NOON as we honor our Nikkei Veterans from past NorCAL and Salt Lake City Congressional Gold Medal ceremonies and other Veteran Day Tribute events all to the music composed by Dr. Anthony Brown and…
The Mistrial of Iva Toguri and the Myth of “Tokyo Rose” Orphan Ann was a disk jockey on Japanese radio during World War II. She was a real person named Iva Toguri. This is her story. This also the story of “Tokyo Rose,” who was not a real person, but a myth—a press invention, later…
50 Objects Sat. Dec 5, 11 am to 12 noon Guest Ibuki Hibi Lee with Nancy Ukai, 50 Objects, and Melissa Bailey, NJAHS Join us for an illustrated conversation with Ibuki Hibi Lee, who carried her doll to Tanforan and Topaz in 1942. She still has the doll, which was memorialized in a photograph…
LIVE Virtual Event: Race & Resilience: the Story of Buffalo Soldiers and Nisei Solders in Beyond Pearl Harbor LIVE Sessions Sunday, December 6, 2020 10AM HST, 12 PST, 2 MST, 3 EST Please Join Us For this LIVE broadcast with NJAHS @ the Presidio LIVE with NPS Ranger emeritus Rik Penn, Buffalo Soldiers, and NJAHS'…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8VIX1bDyo0 Date & Time: December 19, 2020 from 11am - 12 noon. A leader in the JACL Redress campaign, John Tateishi shares his intimate knowledge of the behind-the-scenes fight for redress, beginning with an acutely divided community, internal discord, and an American public largely unaware of concentration camps on US soil. His latest book has…
50 Objects and NJAHS invite you to “Mihara’s Braille Board” Date & Time: Sat. Jan. 23, 11 a.m. to 12 noon PST Guests: Sam Mihara, Nob Mihara and Linda Mihara with Nancy Ukai, 50 Objects, and Melissa Bailey, NJAHS Join us for slides and a live Q and A about Tokinobu Mihara, who arrived in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1UJw6xV6Cg A Virtual ZOOM Event All are welcome! ON-LINE REGISTRATION REQUIRED PROGRAM : Keynote Speaker: Rev. Arnold Townsend . Associate Minister, Church Without Walls , Vice President, San Francisco NAACP Emcees: Dianne Fukami, Award-winning filmmaker & Hillary Nakano, Attorney and activist Clifford I. Uyeda Peace & Humanitarian Awardee: Campaign for Justice: Redress NOW for Japanese…
Past NJAHS Events 2021 Sat. Apr. 10, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Japanese Voices of Angel Island - A virtual book talk feat. Prof. Charles Egan. Click here to watch Sat. Apr. 17, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Remembering Our Grandfathers' Exile from Hawai'i - A virtual book talk feat. Prof. Emerita Gail Okawa. Click…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIwNQZylviM Japanese Inscriptions and Poetry from Angel Island, a book talk presented by Professor Charles Egan. Sat. April 10, 11 a.m. to 12 noon via Zoom. Co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation You’re invited to a book talk and live Q and A by Professor Charles…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvVJHEZ8Ye0 Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile: The Imprisonment of Hawai`i’s Japanese in World War II, a book talk presented by Gail Okawa. Sat. April 17, 1 to 2 p.m. via Zoom. Co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society and the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Join us for an illustrated talk and a live Q and A…
Internment camp survivor wants NPS to preserve his past Rob Hotakainen, E&E News reporter Published: Thursday, April 22, 2021 Bob Fuchigami was only 11 years old in 1942 when the military ordered his family living in California to report to the local train depot. Eventually, he said, they ended up at Camp Amache in Granada,…
Densho is hosting the official book launch for Facing the Mountain, a new book about WWII incarceration and the 442nd RCT by Daniel James Brown, NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat. The May 11, 2021 virtual event will feature a conversation between Brown and Densho Executive Director Tom Ikeda, who has…
Click here to watch Natsukashi: Writings on the Nisei Experience with Instructor Naomi Shibata and her Nisei storytellers. Sat. May 15, 11 AM to 12 Noon via Zoom. Co-sponsored by the National Japanese American Historical Society and the Hayward Area Historical Society Grab your morning buns and tea and join us for some literary delights…