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Japanese American History Archives
www.amacor d.com/fillmore/museum/jt/jaha/jaha.html
JAHA holds books, periodicals, documents, maps, photographs, art and film relating to the Japanese experience in the United States from the mid-1800s, when the first Japanese pioneers set foot on American soil, to the present.



Japanese American National Museum
www.janm.org
The Japanese American National Museum aims to make known the Japanese American experience as an integral part of our nation's heritage in order to improve understanding and appreciation for America's ethnic and cultural diversity.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
www.nara.gov
NARA makes available to the public the historically valuable records of the three branches of federal government: executive (including the President), legislative, and judicial. National Archives holdings include textual; audiovisual; cartographic and architectural; and electronic records.

NEW!!
The NARA now has the War Relocation Authority Records available online, which include information about all Americans of Japanese ancestry who were incarcerated during WWII.

To access the records, click on this link: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp

  1. a page with several search options will appear, allowing you to seach by subject, geographic area, time span, etc.
  2. in the "subject" menu, scroll down until you find the "Japanese Americans" archives
  3. click the "submit" button
  4. on the next page, click on the "Japanese American Internee Data File 1942-1946" link
  5. on the next page, click on the red "search" button
  6. this should take you to the search menu for the WRA files. From here, follow the directions on the web page


National Japanese American Historical Society
www.nikkeiheritage.org
The National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS), founded in 1980 in San Francisco, is a non-profit membership supported organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
Densho: Japanese American Legacy Project
www.densho.org
Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1986 to collect oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make widely accessible primary source materials.
Okasan and Me
www.okasanandme.com
Okasan and me is a non-profit bilingual Japanese Language and Cultural Program that is offered in Japanese and English to children age 2-16 years old.  Classes are held in San Jose, Hawaii and Los Angeles and a CD and class book are available.

Original songs and original arrangements to learn the Japanese alpha, numbers,and simple greetings were created by Thia Konda. Guest artist Herb Ohta Jr . Music composed by  VAIHI.
Nihonmachi Outreach Commmittee (NOC)
www.sjnoc.org

NOC is the host of the annual San Jose Day of Remembrance event that commemorates Executive Order 9066 which led to the forced incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were American citizens. NOC strives to bring out issues that are important to the Japanese American community.