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2009 Tanabata Festival

What better way to connect to the community than through beautiful craft work? Surprisingly Nisei Week, the Little Tokyo Public Safety Association's Brian Kito, and the Japanese American National Museum …

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Tanabata at JANM 2009

ylkawashima

After witnessing the beautifully elaborate Tanabata decorations in Sao Paulo, the Discover Nikkei staff who went to Brazil in 2007 asked, Yoshihito Yonezawa, president of Nanka Miyagi Kenjinkai if he …

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Bridging Generations: The UCLA Nikkei Student Union

ylkawashima

In the fall of my first quarter at UCLA I decided to expand my knowledge of the Japanese American community in a fun, explorative way: the Nikkei Student Union (NSU). …

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Little Tokyo Community Profiles

mpitelka

This collection includes materials from the five businesses that students in the Occidental College Asian Studies seminar "Japanophilia" (2009) profiled through their collaboration with the Japanese American National Museum's Discover …

community history

"Kenjinkai: Past, Present, and Future" on March 28, 2009 at Japanese American National Museum

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The public program “Kenjinkai: Past, Present, and Future” was held on March 28, 2009 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. Since the Japanese began migrating to …

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The Little Tokyo Café

Jamal_Fahim

The Little Tokyo Café is a small, family run restaurant that is located on N. San Pedro St. Its owner, Mitsuko Minohara, is a second generation Japanese immigrant whose mother …

community history

Part of these albums:: Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

Bunkado: Gifts and Music

avam

Bunkado, meaning “House of Culture” was founded in 1945 by Tokio Ueyama and his wife Suye. Suye and Tokio had just been released from the internment camps, meaning that Tokio …

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Part of these albums:: Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

Aoi Restaurant

rbonaparte

Owner of Aoi Hiroko Yamagata came to Southern California in December of 1968. In 1976, with the aid of her sister Grace Maruyama, and without any previous business experience, Hiroko …

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Part of these albums:: Little Tokyo Community Profiles Collected by: mpitelka

REDRESS REMEMBERED: WWII Rendition of Japanese Latin Americans

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During WWII, over 2,200 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry were kidnapped from 13 Latin American countries and interned in Department of Justice camps and Army facilities in the …

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Traditional Classical Japanese Dancers in Chicago

intrepidmouse

Early photos of traditional classical Japanese dance in Chicago beginning in the 1970's. Dancers continue to train at the JASC under the guidance of Fujima Shunojo.

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