Revista del Museo Nacional Japonés Americano
Estos artículos se publicaron originalmente en la revista impresa para miembros del Museo Nacional Japonés Americano .
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Un baúl lleno de historias: la colección Shogo Myaida
19 de enero de 2015 • Japanese American National Museum
En 1990, dos años antes de que el Museo Nacional Japonés Americano abriera al público, el curador Brian Niiya miró a través de un viejo baúl destartalado en Albertson, Nueva York. Un anciano caballero japonés-estadounidense y su esposa habían fallecido recientemente. La vecina y amiga de la familia Gloria Massimo había conservado el baúl lleno de cartas, papeles, apuntes de clase, material impreso sobre paisajismo y miles de fotografías. Instada por Lily Kiyasu, miembro fundador del Museo, quien había conocido …
Una infancia inusual: un perfil de los puertos de Suki Terada
8 de diciembre de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Suki Setsuko Terada Ports es una mujer franca con una risa contagiosa y modales sencillos. Es muy conocida en Nueva York como una activista dedicada e incansable. Ports ha dedicado gran parte de su vida al servicio comunitario. En los últimos años, ha dedicado la mayor parte de su tiempo a ayudar a crear proyectos sobre el SIDA, incluido uno que presta servicios a las comunidades asiáticas e isleñas del Pacífico de la ciudad de Nueva York. Suki llama a …
Issei in New York, 1876 – 1941
7 de julio de 2014 • Eiichiro Azuma
The first Japanese immigrants to New York were quite different from their West Coast counterparts. Initially, the majority of Issei (first generation Japanese in America) came to New York, not to make quick money and return to Japan, but to engage in U.S.-Japan trade and learn Western ways. Many of these New York Issei came from Tokyo and other large cities, rather than from farming prefectures. Japanese Entrepreneurs The first Japanese in New York were ambitious young businessmen. In 1875, …
Community Activism A Family Tradition - Profile of Umeko Kawamoto
23 de junio de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Umeko Kawamoto is a bright-eyed woman with a radiant smile who enjoys reminiscing about San Diego’s thriving Japanese American community in the years before World War II. She recalls the prewar Japantown, in what is now downtown’s Gaslamp Quarter, as a bustling neighborhood that included grocery stores, restaurants, pool halls, dry goods stores, and hotels. The neighborhood, like Japanese districts all up and down the west coast, was emptied of its residents during World War II and never regained its …
There Wasn’t Anything to Be Afraid of In Those Days – Profile of Aiko Owashi
16 de junio de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Aiko Owashi, like so many Nisei women, begins an interview with the claim that her life is not interesting; nothing much ever happened to her. She acknowledges that her family is “deeply rooted” in San Diego, and soon is telling stories that illuminate a remarkable history. Owashi’s father, Toraichi Ozaki, came from Wakayama to San Diego at about the turn of the last century. He was, Owashi notes proudly, a charter member of the Ocean View United Church of Christ …
He Kept the Boat Alive – Profile by Harold Ikemura
2 de junio de 2014 • Japanese American National Museum
Harold Ikemura loves to tell stories about his years in the fishing fleet. At 83, he recalls with astonishing detail the particulars of his long life and of his years at sea. “I love fishing,” he says with delight. As a teenager, Ikemura went trout fishing along the San Gabriel River with the sons of a prominent Pasadena Japanese American family. Dr. Takejiro Itow, one of the founders of the Japanese hospital in Los Angeles, also had a daughter, Sumi, …
