Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

The Japanese word 'densho' means "to pass on to future generations." The organization was founded in 1996 with a primary goal of collecting personal testimonies from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. Over the years, its mission expanded to "educate, preserve, collaborate, and inspire action for equity". Densho uses digital technology and best archival practices to collect, record, preserve, and share its oral histories, documents, photographs, newspapers, and other primary source materials documenting the wartime detention of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent without due process of law. Wikipedia*

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Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project has hosted 18 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1997 Interview. The year with the most events was 2008 with six events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 1998 with an average of 1,245 views per video. Most appearances with Tom Ikeda (11), Megan Asaka (4), Stephen Fugita (4). Most common tags: Japanese Americans, World War II, Asian Americans.