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Densho は、数百時間分のビデオ証言と数万枚もの歴史的画像を収集しています。このシリーズでは、Densho デジタル アーカイブの一次資料にスポットを当て、日系アメリカ人の歴史のテーマを説明するアーカイブから厳選した作品を紹介します。
このシリーズのストーリー
Hatsuji Becomes Harry: Names and Nisei Identity
2011年3月16日 • Denshō
“When I got married and had kids, I didn’t try to share with them too many Japanese things. And when they were born, I made sure none of them had Japanese first names.” —May K. Sasaki What we call ourselves says much about how we want the world to see us. Aspiring entertainers adopt stage names; militants drop the surnames of their oppressor ancestors; immigrants voluntarily or involuntarily end up newly dubbed in their new country. Usually outsiders don’t presume to …
Evacuation or Exclusion? Japanese Americans Exiled
2011年2月22日 • Denshō
“They came here to be American.” —Earl Hanson As we trace the calendar of Japanese American history through the images and words preserved in Densho’s Digital Archive, we come upon dismaying news photos dated March 30, 1942. On that day, the first Japanese American families were taken from their homes by armed soldiers under the authority granted by President Roosevelt to Western Command General John L. DeWitt.The general had won the cabinet-level argument in favor of removing every man, …
Real Friends: Standing by the Japanese Americans
2010年12月8日 • Denshō
"Everywhere there is community feeling to be mended, vicious legislation to be defeated, many urgent jobs calling for attention from real friends of the real America." --Letter from Friends of the American Way Whether through principle or personal attachment, true friends of Japanese Americans did not abandon them after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when in public perception they were suddenly equated with the enemy. Interviews and documents preserved in the Densho digital archive give poignant testimony to the consolation …
Pioneer Generation: Remembering the Issei
2010年12月1日 • Denshō
They were early pioneers. And especially on farms it was very difficult for them." --Kara Kondo The stories Nisei interviewees tell about their parents form a pattern: Fathers left the villages and rice farms of Japan at the turn of the last century to earn money in Hawaii and mainland United States. Some still in their teens, they took grueling jobs at farms, lumber mills, railroad camps, and fishing canneries; others worked as houseboys. Once they earned enough money, …
International Internees: The Family Camp at Crystal City
2010年11月24日 • Denshō
"The bitterness of the incarceration was there, but they were able to circumvent it somehow and live a pretty decent...community family life." --Mako Nakagawa Days after the Texas Board of Education voted to amend the state's social studies curriculum in order to correct a perceived liberal bias, a Texas chapter in Japanese American history comes to mind. According to press accounts, among the changes the school board made to the curriculum is "an amendment stressing that Germans and Italians …
International Lives: The Horiuchi Interviews
2010年1月13日 • Denshō
“The Nikkei I knew that were involved in the occupation…they were able to work more closely with the Japanese because the Japanese looked upon them as someone that could understand their culture, their history, and their motivation.”—Lucius Horiuchi Last year Densho interviewed Maynard and Lucius Horiuchi in Sonoma, California. With a generous grant from the Tateuchi Foundation, their interviews became the first in the Densho collection to be translated into Japanese. Their bilingual presence in the Digital Archive is utterly …
