BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.5011@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20150912T000000Z DTEND:20150912T000000Z DESCRIPTION:<span style="font-family: Arial \, sans-serif\;"><span style="l ine-height: 115.0%\;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; font-family: Arial \, sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; line-height: 115.0%\; fo nt-family: Arial \, sans-serif\;">In celebration of the 125th anniversar y of Japantown San Jose\, JAMsj will be hosting an open house with free admission and featuring Living Museum Tours. \n \n\n1:30 p.m. Keynote Speakers\n\n<ul><li><span style="line-height: 1.45em\; background-color: initial\;">Curt Fukuda\, co-author of <em>San Jose Japantown: A Journey</ em> <span style="line-height: 1.45em\; background-color: initial\;">\, sho wcasing 125 years of Japantown history </li><li><span style="line-height : 1.45em\; background-color: initial\;">Connie Young Yu\, author of <em>C hinatown San Jose\, USA</em> <span style="line-height: 1.45em\; background -color: initial\;">\, highlighting Heinlenville Chinatown before Japantown (1887 &nbsp\;to 1930s) </li><li><span style="background-color: initial\ ;">Robert Ragsac\, local Filipino American community historian for the Fil ipino American community (1920 to 1940s in Japantown) </li><li><span styl e="line-height: 1.45em\; background-color: initial\;">Duane Kubo\, award-w inning film maker and retired dean at De Anza College\, p <span style="lin e-height: 1.45em\; background-color: initial\;">resentation on J-Town Comm unity TV and resources on Japantown history </li></ul>\n\n1:00 to 3:00 p .m. Additional Speakers\n\n<ul><li>Living History Exhibit Docents--hear f irst-hand accounts of Japantown and Japanese American history\, including stories about the WWII internment and the fight for redress\, the experi ence of Japanese American veterans\, farm life in Santa Clara Valley\, an d stories about old Japantown </li><li>Informally talk with people such as :\n\n<ul><li>Kats Hikido\, 442nd Regimental Combat Team veteran\n\n</li><l i>Art Shibayama\, former Peruvian internee at Crystal City Justice Departm ent camp\n\n</li><li>Jimi Yamaichi\, farming expert and Tule Lake resister \n\n</li><li>Susan Hayase\, redress activist and vice chair of the Civil L iberties Public Education Fund\n\n</li><li><span style="line-height: 1.45e m\; background-color: initial\;">Tom Graves\, author of <em>Twice Heroes: America's Nisei Veterans of WWII and Korea</em>\n </li></ul>\n\n</li></ul> \n\n<span style="font-family: Arial \, sans-serif\;"><span style="line-hei ght: 115.0%\;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; font-family: Arial \, sans -serif\;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt\; line-height: 115.0%\; font-fami ly: Arial \, sans-serif\;"> \n Cost: There is no cost for this event.\n RS VP: No RSVP required. For more information about our open house\, cont act Steve Fugita at <a href="mailto:ssfugita@yahoo.com">ssfugita@yahoo.com </a> or Tom Izu at <a href="mailto:izutom@deanza.edu">izutom@deanza.edu</a > . DTSTAMP:20240424T155027Z SUMMARY:JAMsj Open House &amp\; Living Museum Tours URL:/en/events/2015/09/12/jamsj-open-house-amp-living-museum-tours/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR