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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
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    • NJAHS Digital Archives
    • Nikkei Heritage
    • 100th / 442nd Regimental Combat Team
      • AJA War Veterans Tribute
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    • Japanese American Baseball History Project
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    • Tule Lake Oral History Project
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      • Rent the MIS
    • Japantown Peace Gallery
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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…

January 2021

Sat 23
January 23, 2021 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am

Virtual Broadcast: Mihara’s Braille Board program

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…

February 2021

Fri 19
Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2021
February 19, 2021 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Virtual Broadcast: Bay Area Day of Remembrance 2021

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…

April 2021

Thu 8
April 8, 2021 at 4:00 am - June 4, 2021 at 10:00 am

Past NJAHS Events 2021 on YouTube

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…

Sat 10
April 10, 2021 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

Japanese Voices of Angel Island

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…

Sat 17
April 17, 2021 at 6:00 am - 7:00 am

Remembering Our Grandfathers’ Exile – from Hawaii

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…

Fri 23
April 23, 2021 at 7:30 am - 11:00 am

Call to Action: Amache As An National Historic Site

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,…

May 2021

Tue 11
May 11, 2021 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Facing the Mountain- Virtual book launch event

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…

Sat 15
May 15, 2021 at 4:00 am - 5:00 am

Natsukashii: Writings on the Nisei Experience

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…

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