Japanese American Museum of Oregon

Join us for a panel discussion with some of the people featured in Standing for Justice: The Japanese Americans Shaping Oregon exhibition, including Peggy Nagae, Mari Watanabe, Elisa Dozono, and Tiffany Koyama Lane. Learn about their lives and what inspired them to pursue careers focused around civic engagement and protection of civil rights. Hear directly […]

Kintsukuroi, a new historical drama from director Kerwin Berk, follows members of the Ito family from their pre-war life in San Francisco’s Japantown to the concentration camps of the American West to the battlefields of Europe as they endure one of the most shameful periods in American history. kintsukuroi 1. Japanese art of repairing broken […]

The Nisei Paradox, a multi-media stage reading created, produced, and performed by a group of judges and attorneys, tells the story of 42 young Japanese Americans who chose to resist the draft and fight injustice through civil disobedience. During WWII, young Japanese Americans (Nisei) incarcerated at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Southeast Idaho, faced a […]