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      • Musicmakers Workshop
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      • Detention Camp Class Kit
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      • Farm Labor While Confined
      • LIFE’S ANGLES: Camp Art Boxes Workshop
      • Teacher Institutes -Professional Development Workshops
      • Through Our Eyes Workshop
      • Tule Lake Curriculum
      • We Are All Americans Curriculum
      • Western Region Confinement Sites Education Project
    • Walking Tours
    • Teacher’s Blog
  • Research
    • NJAHS Digital Archives
    • Nikkei Heritage
    • 100th / 442nd Regimental Combat Team
      • AJA War Veterans Tribute
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      • Military Intelligence Service Awards Project
      • Military Intelligence Service Research Center
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    • Japanese American Baseball History Project
    • Japanese American Women — Three Generations 1890 – Present
    • Tule Lake Oral History Project
  • VISIT
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      • History of the MIS
      • Rent the MIS
    • Japantown Peace Gallery
  • Support
    • Become a Member
      • Apply or Renew
    • Donate
      • Donations
      • Donor Legacy Wall
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May 2019

Sat 4
May 4, 2019 at 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

May 4, 2019 Annual Awards Tribute Pictures

The Open Square, Futures Without Violence Building, 100 Montgomery, Main Post, Presidio of San Francisco 100 Montgomery, in the Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco

Making Waves: Learning from the Past, Influencing the Future Date & Time: Saturday, May 4, 2019, 5:00 PM - 9PM Location: The open square-Future Without Violence Building (100 Montgomery St, Presidio of San Francisco CA 94129) Emcee: Jane Katsuyama, FOX-TV Honorees: Dr. Satsuki Ina, Psychotherapist/Activist Lane Nishikawa, Actor/Producer/Director Community Recognition: Student Alumni of San Francisco State…

Sat 4
May 4, 2019 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

SF Premiere Film Screening: Our Lost Years by Lane Nishikawa- May 4

The Open Square, Futures Without Violence Building, 100 Montgomery, Main Post, Presidio of San Francisco 100 Montgomery, in the Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco

Saturday, May 4, 2019, 7PM Screening at NJAHS 2019 Annual Tribute, SF Presidio Actor, Producer, Director Lane Nishikawa returns to San Francisco for an evening honoring his lifetime achievements. For just one-night,  we'll present the SF Premiere Film Screening of Our Lost Years Trailer - Our Lost Years This Film screening presentation is in conjunction with Then They…

June 2019

Sat 22
June 22, 2019 at 4:00 am - 8:00 am

NJAHS Annual Members Meeting

Join us on our annual member meeting. All are welcome! Date & Time: June 22 at 11:00am-3:00pm Location: 640 Mason St San Francisco CA 94129 (Presidio of S.F.) Featuring guest speaker: Sharon Yamato New exhibit: What happened at Wyoming’s Heart Mountain concentration camp when hundreds of barracks built to house 11,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry…

Sat 22
June 22, 2019 at 5:00 am - September 30, 2019 at 10:00 am

Moving Walls: The Barracks of America’s Concentration Camps

Location: MIS Historic Learning Center Building 640, 640 Mason St San Francisco CA 94129 Time & Date: Sat. & Sun. 12PM-5PM ENDS September 30, 2019  

August 2019

Sat 3
August 3, 2019 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

National Japanese American Historical Society & Nihonmachi Street Fair Presents

FREE Movie Night at the Peace Plaza SATURDAY, August 3, 2019 from 8:15pm (sun down) - 10:00pm “MIRAI” a lm by Mamoro Hosoda ★ 91st Academy Awards Nominee Best Animated Film ★ Golden Globe Awards Nominee Best Motion Picture - Animated www.nihonmachisf.org  

November 2019

Sat 9
November 9, 2019 at 2:00 am - 4:00 am

TRIBUTE TO ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VETERANS 2019

On behalf of our Veterans Day Event committee, we are writing to you to invite you to “TRIBUTE TO ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VETERANS 2019” our annual Veterans Day weekend ceremony and concert featuring Anthony Brown  and Janice Mirikitani. On Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10 – 12 noon, followed by a private lunch reception…

December 2019

Sun 15
December 15, 2019 at 6:00 am - 8:00 am

Genealogy Series 2

                  #2 WWII CAMP RECORDS  Sunday, December 15, 2019, 2- 4PM NJAHS Gallery 1684 Post Street San Francisco CA 94115 NJAHS Executive Director Rosalyn Tonai will speak about accessing your family's Japanese American camp records for War Relocation Authority centers and "Enemy Alien" Internment sites available at the National…

January 2020

Wed 1
January 1, 2020 at 4:00 am - December 31, 2020 at 9:00 am

NEW! DISLOCATION & DIVERGENCE: E. O. 9066 at the MIS Historic Learning Center

NEW INSTALLATION- Dislocation & Divergence: Causes & Consequences of E.O. 9066 at the MIS Historic Learning Center 2020 NJAHS 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 This completes a two & a half year exhibition project funded…

February 2020

Sat 1
February 1, 2020 at 4:00 am - July 18, 2020 at 10:00 am

THE SUITCASE PROJECT at the NJAHS Peace Gallery- Due to Covid-19 our office is closed

National Japanese Historical Society 1684 Post Street, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

March 2020

Tue 31
Featured Featured March 31, 2020 - April 1, 2020

Census Day

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. …

May 2020

Fri 22
May 22, 2020 at 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Virtual Broadcasts: Kayla Isomura of The Suitcase Project – In the Era of Covid-19

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…

June 2020

Sat 27
June 27, 2020 at 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Virtual Broadcasts: NJAHS Annual Members Meeting

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…

September 2020

Sat 5
September 5, 2020 at 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Virtual Broadcasts: ANNUAL AWARDS TRIBUTE 2020 LIVESTREAM SEPT. 5

Futures Without Violence 100 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA, United States

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…

October 2020

Sat 17
October 17, 2020 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

Virtual Broadcasts: Takato Hamai’s handmade crutches

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…

November 2020

Sat 7
November 7, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

Virtual Broadcast’s: Toy Tank at Tule Lake

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.…

Sat 14
November 14, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

Virtual Broadcast: VETERANS DAY 2020

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…

Wed 18
November 18, 2020 at 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Tokyo Rose Program- Nov 18

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…

December 2020

Sat 5
December 5, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

Virtual Broadcast: Ibuki’s Doll Program

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…

Sun 6
December 6, 2020 at 4:00 am - 6:00 am

Race & Resilence: the Story of Buffalo Soldiers and Nisei Solders in Beyond Pearl Harbor, a virtual Event

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'…

Sat 19
Redress
December 19, 2020 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

John Tateishi, Author of REDRESS, A Behind-the Scenes Perspective

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…

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