The NJAHS Peace Gallery is open every first Saturday of the month. Visit our Peace Gallery for our latest exhibit and browse our gift shop. Check our calendar for special programs, workshops, or events.
Japanese Americans from the Bay Area Day of Remembrance Consortium expressed support and solidarity for the Muslim, Sikh, Arab, and South Asian American communities on December 22, 2015. Links to news video segments / articles below: NBC KTVU SFGate ABC 7 News Foundasian.org
Learn about the poignant irony of the Japanese American experience during WWII on an easy, half-mile walk that includes short tour inside the new Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center at the Presidio. Meet ranger James Osborne at Bldg 640, the Military Intelligence Service Historic Learning Center, on Crissy Field next to Sports Basement. Reservations…
2016 marks the 110th anniversary of San Francisco’s Japantown in the Western Addition. NJAHS brings to light the history of one of the oldest Japantowns that has survived over a century of discrimination, dislocation & urban renewal. Colorful banner panels illustrate the narrative with historic photographs, maps & oral history quotes. On display through December…
Exhibition Closed
Days of Fear/Years of Infamy Sundance Kabuki Theatres 1881 Post Street, SF Japantown (suggested donation $8) All Are Welcome!
Summer Camp Session - Sign ups Now Open MORE DETAILS GO TO: https://www.njahs.org/public-programs/
Featured at History Days at the Old US Mint will be invited special guest speakers Steve Okamoto, former Foster City councilman, and Tanforan Memorial Plaza Project and Hiroshi Kashiwagi, author, poet & actor will share their personal stories of incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Mr. Kashiwagi will read selections from his published works Swimming…
Carrying ON: 2016 -110th Anniversary of San Francisco's Japantown in the Presidio! Sunday, May 1, 2016, 5 - 7:30PM. Free Shuttle ON- an obligation, a profound responsibility that transcends generations, to honor those who left a heritage of hard work, determination, and big dreams. In tribute to the Japanese American family-owned businesses Okamura's Benkyo-do, Mihara's Paper…
On April 21, 4-6PM. USF will honor NJAHS and the National Park Service for their university-museum collaboration-- a public access digitization project. Camp Collections: A Digital Library was funded in part by the Japanese American Confinement Sites grant and administered by the National Park Service in September 2013. Since 2011, NJAHS has been working with the University’s Gleeson…
