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…

A discussion about the hardships faced by children born to Japanese mothers and American fathers during and after World War II. This program was part of a symposium co-hosted by the Japanese…

This program featured a panel of scholars talking about Japanese war brides and their children. They discussed the women’s lives in America and their legacies. It was part of a symposium co-…

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…

Eric Muller talked about his book American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, published by University of North Carolina Press. In his book he examine…

Joanne Oppenheim talked about her book for young adults, Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, publ…

Judge Wallace Tashima of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S Court of Appeals, gave the keynote address for a conference on the 60th anniversary of four Supreme Court cases challenging the curfew a…