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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. Prelude In November 1918, composer Kōsaku Yamada (1886–1965) (山田耕筰) arrived in New York City—then emerging as the cultural capital of a new postwar world. Within months, he made history as the first Japanese musician to conduct and perform his own works at Carnegie Hall, introducing American audiences to a distinctly modern vision of Japanese music. […]

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 of the a-bombs, or  hibakusha, who later made their way to the United States. Others experienced growing up in the internment camps and migrating to the east coast. All joined the Japanese diaspora in New York and New Jersey and have carried those histories forward. Each story shared here is a personal one, shaped by […]