Alan Nakagawa, Sound Artist +
The story of Japanese Americans in the 20th century — their migration to the United States, the Alien Land laws under which they lived, incarceration during World War II, and the Redress Movement — is a complex one. It is also a subject of tremendous historical importance, both in California and for the nation as a whole. It is archival materials that tell these local, and sometimes personal, stories best.
The CSU Japanese American Digitization Project, the 23-campus California State University system archives, and other, similar collections across the state now offer scholars, librarians, archivists, educators and the interested public far easier access to a wide variety of archival material about this crucial subject. With the help of grant funding, the project digitizes and describes these archival collections in order to bring these significant stories together for worldwide access and contribute to the d
Many of the War Relocation Authority Camps where people of Japanese ancestry were sent during WWII are now National Historic Landmarks, Monuments or Sites that can be visited.
Alan Nakagawa, Sound Artist +