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Pioneers of San Jose Japantown WWII: 442nd Regimental Combat Team WWII: Military Intelligence Service WWII: Assembly Centers and Internment Camps Post-WWII Resettlement Asahi/Zebras Baseball Farming Exhibit Oral History Project Valley of the Voices - KTEH Documentary Japantown Walking Tours

Jack Matsuoka's Cartoons: Making the Best of Poston
Jack Matsuoka was only a teenager when he was incarcerated in Poston during WWII. He documented his experiences through a series of cartoon sketches, often humorous, always insightful.


Farming Exhibit
In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrant families utilized specialized farming techniques to produce high yields of flowers, fruits and vegetables. Learn about these techniques by viewing the farming equipment that they employed.

Pioneers of San Jose / Japantown Exhibit
Starting in 1890, Issei (first generation) came to the Santa Clara Valley in search of work. In 1900, Japanese Americans established Japantown, a place for them to meet their social, cultural and economic needs in a society hostile to their presence.
World War II: Assembly Centers and Internment Camps Exhibit
During WWII some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and incarcerated. They were placed into temporary "assembly" centers then desolate camps in the interior of the United States.


World War II: 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team
This military unit became the most decorated unit in United States military history. The unit was composed of Hawaiian Japanese Americans as well as volunteers and draftees from the internment camps.


World War II: Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
Second generation Japanese American men and women served in the MIS during World War II and used their language skills in the Pacific theater as translators and POW interrogators.


Post World War II: Resettlement
Personal recollections of Japanese Americans returning to the Santa Clara Valley after their release from the camps.


Rotating Exhibit - currently Asahi/Zebras Baseball
Baseball has always been a popular pastime in the Japanese American community. San Jose's talented team was known as the Asahis before World War II and the Zebras after the war.


1942: Luggage From Home to Camp
Artist Flo Oy Wong uses suitcases from the internment to create an art exhibit illustrating the stories of six World War II internment camp survivors who now reside in San Jose.