J-Town Community TV

J-Town Community TV is a YouTube channel with a focus on "news, views, culture, and history of San Jose's Japantown and beyond" which video records many museum events. Video recordings of past JAMsj events:

Dr. Amy Sueyoshi (SFSU), Tim Yamauchi (UCSC) and Dr. Tina Takemoto (Calif. College of the Arts) read from their latest manuscripts.
Hosted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, Nisei baseball legends joined Nikkei baseball historians Bill Staples, Jr., Ralph Pearce and Kerry Yo Nakagawa for a nostalgic look back at the role of America's national pastime in our prewar and camp communities.
The long-awaited epic chronicle of San Jose Japantown's history authored by Curt Fukuda and Ralph M. Pearce gets a community-wide greeting. Hosted by the Japanese American Museum of San Jose. Book available at JAMsj.
Author Tom Graves and seven Nisei veterans are featured in the opening program and reception for JAMsj's current exhibit: TWICE HEROES and MORE, showcasing Nisei veterans of WW2 and Korea. January 17, 2015.
DR. MICHAEL JIN of Texas A&M shares his research into Nisei draftees of Japan's Imperial Armed Forces. JIMMIE MATSUDA and PETER SANO discuss the circumstances of their service in Japan's military during WWII.
The fourth anniversary update of the 2011 Tohoku disaster focuses on the next generation--students from the Tohoku region working with their American high school counterparts to produce materials to attract tourism back to their affected hometowns.
The fourth anniversary update of the 2011 Tohoku disaster focuses on the next generation--students from the Tohoku region working with their American high school counterparts to produce materials to attract tourism back to their affected hometowns.
The fourth anniversary update of the 2011 Tohoku disaster focuses on the next generation--students from the Tohoku region working with their American high school counterparts to produce materials to attract tourism back to their affected hometowns.
The fourth anniversary update of the 2011 Tohoku disaster focuses on the next generation--students from the Tohoku region working with their American high school counterparts to produce materials to attract tourism back to their affected hometowns.
Activist and moderator Susan Hayase brings in the unconventional Omori sisters--Chizu and Emiko-- for an insightful discussion about typical and not-so-typical behavior by Nisei women and how it relates back to the camps and JA and women's roles. Audience interaction and clips from Emiko Omori's films--Rabbit in the Moon and Tattoo City--help punctuate the lively discussion.
UCLA Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Dr. Valerie Matsumoto, describes how Nisei girls' clubs provided a social network and stability in the midst of racial discrimination, the upheavals of internment during World War II, and postwar resettlement in Los Angeles. Recorded at Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj), May 17, 2015.