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SUMMARY:NEW! DISLOCATION & DIVERGENCE: E. O. 9066 at the MIS Historic Learning Center
DESCRIPTION:NEW INSTALLATION- Dislocation & Divergence: Causes & Consequences of E.O. 9066\nat the MIS Historic Learning Center\n2020\nNJAHS presents 3 new wall-installations capturing 5 episodes of World War II: War Clouds Brewing\, America Enters the War\, Exclusion & Removal\, Hidden Truths\, Hidden Treasures\nThis completes a two & a half year exhibition project funded in part by grants from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant program administered by the National Park Service and the JA Community Foundation and CA Civil Liberties Public Education Program.\nThe period scenarios with artifacts allow for an intimate “walk back in time\,” matched with IPAD pro interactive technology which allows for a “deeper” dive into the analysis of what happened and why. There’s a new addition that looks at the discovery of key evidence from the 1980’s coram nobis legal cases of Korematsu\, Yasui\, & Hirabayashi which revealed suppression of evidence\, a cover up\, and fraud upon the Supreme Court. Step inside and discover!\n                    \n                           \n9-19-2018: The National Japanese American Historical Society announced the completion of a simulated horse stall barrack for its Dislocation and Divergence new installation at the MIS Historic Learning Center\, located at Crissy Field in the Presidio of San Francisco. The mock-up replicates the WWII experience of some 110\,000 Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes due to military orders pursuant to the signing of Executive Order 9066.\nReal Stories\nAccording to project director Rosalyn Tonai\, “We decided to introduce audiences to the compelling experiences of two families\, one of famed artist and essayist Miné Okubo\, and the other of MIS First Class Nisei soldier Tsuneo Gary Kadani.” Miné Okubo\, in her illustrated publication Citizen 13660\, relays her personal removal and incarceration with painstaking detail to a horse stall at Tanforan “Assembly” Center\, in San Bruno\, California.  “We wanted to replicate the cramped quarters and the sense of humiliation felt by the author\, according to Tonai. In addition\, the plight of Gary Kadani’s parents are revealed in his oral history excerpts compiled in First Class: Nisei Linguists of World War II\, Origins of the Military Intelligence Service Language Program of World War II (David Swift\, Jr.\, NJAHS\, 2008).\n\nTsuneo Gary Kadani was an early enlistee into the US Army. A month prior to Pearl Harbor\, he was assigned to the top secret US Army intelligence school at the Presidio of San Francisco in preparation for war against Japan. When WWII broke out\, he along with 59 other MIS servicemen continued their studies at the Presidio while their families were subjected to curfew and forcibly removed from their home\, and incarcerated in makeshift\, hastily built barracks and horse stalls in fairgrounds and racetracks.  Gary disobeyed curfew\, and drove to see his parents at the Salinas fairgrounds. His famous quote at the front of the display recounts his feelings that day “Then came the saddest day of my life…They wouldn’t let me into the camp. My parents were sleeping in a horse stall! It smelled so bad\, they couldn’t sleep\, so my mother asked me to get all the Clorox I could find.”  A vintage 1940’s brown glass Clorox bleach bottle helps depict the circumstances in which many Japanese Americans found themselves.\nReal Objects & Evidence\nAdding to the overall visitor experience is Miné Okubo’s illustrations from Citizen 13660. The visitor can follow along\, seeing Miné’s camp life depictions and reading excerpts of her journal\, through digital displays on an iPadPro. Interwoven into the pages of Citizen 13660 are National Archives photographs of life in repurposed horse stalls and barracks of Tanforan\, Santa Anita\, and Salinas “Assembly Centers.” The iPad also helps guide audiences to explore the stories behind real camp artifacts on display inside the horse stall barrack\, many of them\, personal items belonging for former inmates. Some featured objects include Ken Nihei’s US Army-issued military green wool blanket laid over a hay-stuffed mattress\, personal shaving kit\, 4 year old Pat Kimura’s of Maryknoll Children’s Home child’s suitcase\, a diaper pail\, and a pair of mud- caked hand-carved Japanese wooden clogs (geta).\n \nSupplementing the Horse stall barrack display is a comprehensive Camp Map of where Japanese Americans were incarcerated. The map includes the ten War Relocation Authority centers\, the fifteen “Assembly Centers – the temporary detention facilities.as well as the numerous Department of Justice internment camps for Japanese immigrants deemed “enemy aliens.” \n\n\nPerseverance\n\n“We wanted to show how some inmates coped within the stifling conditions of their confinement\,” noted Tonai. While many were subjected to family separations due to the earlier FBI raids\, and met with unhealthy conditions of open sewers\, others tried to find solace relying on friends and community. Among the few belongings of only what they could carry\, many Issei women stashed their vegetable garden seeds into their pockets. In time\, little front porch “victory” gardens would sprout along the stoops of barracks. Later\, inmates were moved again in six months to the permanent camps in desolate regions of the US. Despite the trauma\, children would find time to play\, collect and trade marbles. One former incarceree\, Toru Saito\, rediscovered his prized marbles buried beneath the silt desert floor where the stoop of his barrack once stood. Toru’s marbles and his story of survival are on display.\nThe horse stall barrack replica of the Dislocation and Divergence new installation is now on display at the Military Intelligence Historic Learning Center\, at the Presidio of San Francisco\, Building 640\, 640 Mason Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94129. The interpretative center is open to the public. General admission is $10. Admission is free to veterans\, NJAHS members\, and children 12 and under. Free education programs are available to teachers. The project has been funded by a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program\, administered by the California State Library and the JA Community Foundation.\nMarye Kimoto\nKaoru Ito\nMiho Endo Ohashi\n\n###
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SUMMARY:THE SUITCASE PROJECT at the NJAHS Peace Gallery- Due to Covid-19 our office is closed
DESCRIPTION:THE SUITCASE PROJECT\nBy Kayla Isomura\nWhat would you pack if forcibly removed from your home today? \nThe 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. \nWhile these descendants of the internment and incarceration may never have to endure the same forced uprooting as their ancestors\, Kayla Isomura’s work examines how they\, and those descended from families who experienced other forms of discrimination\, remain affected by this history today. More than 80 subjects ranging in age and background share their stories from cities in British Columbia\, Canada and Washington\, US through a series of photographs\, short films and interviews. \n\nClick here for more information\n \n\n\n\nWhere: National Japanese American Historical Society Peace Gallery 1684 Post Street. San Francisco\, CA. 94115 \nFebruary 1\, 2020 – July 18\, 2020 \nOpen Monday – Friday\, 12:00pm – 5:00pm And First Saturdays of the Month\, 12:00pm – 5:00pm
URL:https://www.njahs.org/events/the-suitcase-project/
LOCATION:National Japanese Historical Society\, 1684 Post Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
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SUMMARY:Virtual Broadcasts: Kayla Isomura of The Suitcase Project - In the Era of Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Click here to watch\nSPECIAL ZOOM BROADCAST EVENT \n\n\n\nFriday\, May 22\, at 6PM -7:00PM Pacific \n Standard Time \n\n\n\nAn International Conversation with Yonsei Canadian curator /photographer Kayla Isomura of The Suitcase Project – In the Era of Covid-19.  FREE. \nClick here to REGISTER for the ZOOM Broadcast \n\n\n\nThe Suitcase Project\, photographed by Kayla Isomura\, made its debut in February 16\, 2020 at the NJAHS Peace Gallery. With the onset of the Covid19  pandemic and mandatory shelter in place restrictions\,\,this exhibit takes on deeper universal meaning worldwide. Join us in conservation with curator\, photographer Kayla Isomura and her subjects. \n\n\n\nThis exhibit and programming is made possible by a generous grant from the Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation\, the SF Grants for the Arts and matching support from the members of the Nat’l Japanese American Historical Society. While we are still sheltering in place\, NJAHS makes the photographs in the current exhibit available on line and presents Kayla Isomura in a curator’s conversation about her work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      -More- \n         Past meets present in a new exhibit at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre\, as more than 50 fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians and Americans share what they would pack if forcibly removed from their homes today. \n\n\n\n        Context of the Exhibit. Stemming from the history of Japanese Canadians and Americans during the Second World War\, this multimedia exhibit highlights why this history is relevant more than 75 years later. \n\n\n\n          “What began as a photography project\, capturing subjects in their homes\, turned into conversations about contemporary issues\, whether political or personal\,” said Isomura\, 25\, who identifies as fourth generation Japanese Canadian. “In today’s landscape\, Japanese Canadians and Americans don’t necessarily face the same degree of racism and discrimination as our ancestors. However\, we remain affected by this history in many ways.” \n\n\n\n          “Struggling to understand and see ourselves is one aspect of that\, as well as recognizing the ongoing displacement and discrimination other minority groups and people of color face today.” \n\n\n\nIn 1942\, approximately 23\,000 Japanese Canadians and more than 100\,000 Japanese Americans living on the west coast were uprooted from their homes and placed in internment camps or incarceration. \n\n\n\nSubjects for The Suitcase Project were given 24 to 48 hours notice to assemble their things\, similar to what many Japanese Canadians faced in 1942. \n\n\n\n           “In the Canadian context\, Japanese Canadians were not allowed to return home and their possessions were sold by the government or looted\,” said Isomura. “If you were going to lose everything—your home\, your business\, your memories and personal possessions—what would you take outside of things for survival? Or would you focus on your practical needs?” \n\n\n\n             According to Isomura\, Japanese Canadians were limited to weight restrictions while Japanese Americans were limited to only what they could carry. \n\n\n\n            “I never knew what my grandparents or great grandparents packed with them when they were interned\, so I wondered what I could survive with sentimentally and how others would interpret this idea\,” she said. “The original idea wasn’t just about what or how people would pack\, but also what they are forced to leave behind.” \n\n\n\n             The Suitcase Project subjects range from infants to 51-year-olds\, and they were photographed in the Lower Mainland\, Vancouver Island and Western Washington. \n\n\n\nKayla hopes to collect more stories and subjects in the US. For more information about the exhibit project contact njahs@njahs.org \n\n\n\n 
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