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 […]
– 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 […]
Issei
ISSEI Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers 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 […]
Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)
Unforgotten New York Stories: Japanese and Japanese Americans in the 1940s
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: The Japan Pavilions at the New York World's Fairs in 1939-1940 and 1964-1965
Lecture on Exhibiting Japan in Mid-Century New York by Dr. Angus Lockyer
In this lecture, historian Angus Lockyer examines Japan’s participation in the 1939–40 and 1964–65 New York World’s Fairs. He explores how Japan’s pavilions and exhibitions combined traditional culture with modern achievement while responding to the very different diplomatic circumstances of the prewar and postwar periods. Placing the Japanese exhibits within the broader history of international […]