Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York

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Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century

Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century is an online exhibit curated by Dr. Haruko Wakabayashi and presented by the American Buddhist Study Center, in collaboration with the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York. Supported by the New Jersey Historical Commission, the exhibit explores the early connections between Rutgers, Japan, and the New York Buddhist Church through the stories of Kusakabe Tarō, William Elliot Griffis, and the communities that preserved this shared history. LERN MORE

– Coming Soon – Portraits of ISSEI

ISSEI: Portraits of Japanese Immigrants in New York is a participatory online exhibition based on portrait photographs taken by Hiroyuki “Tora” Inoue around 1980, with interviews conducted by Teruho Saito. The project brings together the faces and life stories of first-generation Japanese immigrants who lived through major historical changes while building their lives in New York. Through this exhibit, we invite the community to help identify individuals, share memories, and preserve the legacy of Issei New Yorkers for future generations.

Issei

A page of small black and white portraits of older Japanese people, both men and women. There are 49 portraits total in 7 lines of 7.

ISSEI Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers Photo: Hiroyuki Inoue (left) and Teruho Saito (right) at the first exhibition at JAA in 1980 Created in 1980 by Japanese photographer Hiroyuki “Tora” Inoue, these portraits capture New York’s Issei, the first generation of Japanese immigrants whose lives helped shape the city’s Japanese community but often remained unseen. Nearly forty-five years later, most of this remarkable body of work is now brought together in this digital exhibition.   Inoue passed away in 2024, and many of the individuals in these photographs remain unidentified. This ongoing participatory project invites family members, descendants, community members, researchers, and the public to help connect faces […]

忘れ得ぬニューヨーク物語： 1940 年代の日本人と日系アメリカ人

Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II, his digital exhibit tells the lesser-known stories of Issei and Nisei artists, journalists, writers, activists, social workers, and educators who lived and worked in New York during the war. Explore the exhibit and learn about a facet of history that has been relatively unknown up until this point.

ミッドセンチュリー・ニューヨーク万博における日本館の展示

Image of the cover of a flyer for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Flyer has a picture of the Japan Pavilion, a white building with red fence. To the right is the word Nihon in kanji in red. Underneath on a diagonal reads New York World's Fair 1939 in black.

Watch the event recording here! This event was held at JAA New York. Japan’s participation in New York’s two world’s fairs came in the middle of a century and a half of enthusiasm for expos, which continues today. In both 1939-40 and 1964-65, the Japanese pavilions and exhibits drew on this long experience. They combined traditional culture and modern achievement to appeal to Western audiences, while also trying to answer the diplomatic needs of two very different moments in Japan’s relationship with the West. They were only one of many attractions on site, however, while Flushing Meadows itself was one of many ways the city was trying to keep up […]