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Kōsaku Yamada at Carnegie Hall

Kōsaku Yamada: The First Japanese Conductor at Carnegie Hall This digital exhibit, presented by the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York (DMHJNY) in collaboration with Carnegie Hall, revisits Yamada’s time in New York and his pivotal Carnegie Hall appearances of 1918–1919. This event forms part of Carnegie Hall’s Spotlight on Japan. […]

Witness and Memory: A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York

Witness and Memory: A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York/New Jersey This exhibit brings together the voices of Japanese and Japanese American individuals whose lives were forever altered by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and by the broader experience of World War II as residents of New York. Some were survivors […]