sports en

Tennis Star Recalls Groundbreaking Career

Ann Kiyomura-Hayashi, one of the first Japanese American tennis stars to popularize the sport for women worldwide, is also partly responsible for the mega million …

sports en

Japanese American National Museum Magazine

More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> “BASEBALL SAVED US” The coming of World War II brought upheaval to the Japanese American community. On the mainland, all West …

sports en

Japanese American National Museum Magazine

More Than A Game – Sport in the Japanese American Community, 1885 to Present - Part 1

Sport has played a major role in the life of Japanese American communities from the first establishment of those communities in the late nineteenth century …