For the Masumi Hayashi Museum website, Dr. Hayashi loosely organized her work into the following categories: Sacred Architectures, Japanese-American Internment Camps, Japanese-Canadian Internment Camps, Internee Survivor Portraits, Post-Industrial Landscapes, E.P.A. Superfund Sites, Abandoned Prisons, ...
‘United but Unequal’ is a particularly powerful gallery that explores the racial tensions on the American homefront; even while fighting ethnic nationalists, the American military was segregated, and Japanese American civilians were rounded up into internment camps. The National...
Museum Purchases Internment Artifacts ; Items Were Produced by Japanese-Americans While Held in U.S. CampsA museum in Los Angeles has acquired a collection of artifactsthat Japanese-Americans produced...Kahn, Eve M
It was a very crazy situation and unfortunately it was likely a contributing factor to the government setting up Japanese internment camps based on an official Navy report dated January 26, 1942. Nishikaichi burned his Zero which is partly why the exhibit looks the way it does. Image via crea...
Being Japanese American – A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa…and Their Friends Regular price$18.95 USD Between the Folds (DVD) Regular price$24.99 USD Beyond the Betrayal Regular price$34.95 USD Beyond The Camps: From Japanese American Internment Nightmare to ‘American Dream’ ...
declaration of war on the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Canada designated all Japanese nationals, even those naturalized in Canada, as ‘enemy aliens’. All of their assets and property was confiscated and they were forced to relocate from their homes on the coast to internmen...
Roger Shimomura (b. 1939) borrows the visual language of Japanese woodblock prints and Pop art to render the lives of Japanese Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) and Rirkrit Tiravanjia (b. 1961) map their own diasporic trajectories, ...
Tatura Museum houses a unique collection of items from the seven WW2 Prisoner of War and Internment Camps in the Tatura and Rushworth areas. We also have information on the history of Irrigation in the Goulburn Valley as well as local industries and family histories of Tatura and district. Dun...
Located in Japantown, San Jose, the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) was established in November in1987. JAMsj grew out of a 1984-86 research project on Japanese American farmers in the Santa Clara Valley. The farming project collected family histories, historical photographs, priva...
The Internment Of Japanese Americans Out of all ten internment camps in America, Manzanar is the most well-known. The harshness of this camp lead to constant news stories and televised programs displaying events that occurred there such as shootings, strikes, and a constant feeling of uneasiness ...