Videos

USC history lecturer Susan Kamei profiled 130 Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This was a virtual event hosted by the Japanese Ame…

Bill Shishima gave a tour of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo. Mr. Shishima was born in Little Tokyo in 1930 and spent three years at Heart Mountain Relocat…

Asian American activists talked about their efforts in the 1960s to establish an Asian American cultural and political identity. The discussion was moderated by Karen Ishizuka, author of Ser…

Professor Greg Robinson discussed his book By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans. The book examines the influences that led President Roosevelt to sign …

Scott Kurashige talked about the role African Americans and Japanese Americans played in the social and political struggles that remade twentieth-century Los Angeles in less than a century f…

Bill Shishima gave a tour of a portion of a barracks from the World War II Heart Mountain Relocation Center that is on display in the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Mr. Sh…

A panel of Japanese-American Military Intelligence Service (MIS) veterans who fought in WWII and Korea talked about the contributions they made for the intelligence service. Because of the c…

A panel discussion was held on the Vietnam War from the perspective of Americans of Japanese ancestry. They talked about their experiences in the military from basic training through Vietnam…