ニューヨーク日本人歴史博物館

アーカイブ: 投稿

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.

Exhibiting Japan in Mid-Century New York

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.

This event will be held at JAA New York. Register for the in person attendance here, and Zoom attendance here! 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 […]

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. […]