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Toyo's CameraWhile bringing in cameras to interment camp was prohibited one photographer smuggled in his own camera lens and built a camera to take photographs of life behind barbed wires. That man was photographer Toyo Miyatake. Through an artistic medium Miyatake captured the devastating conditions during WW2 when Japanese Americans could not belong to Japan or America.

What were the consequences

Dai Tokyo Ondo

Through dramatic readings by actors of the East West Players the hopes and dreams of the Issei generation and their ordeal of incarceration are shared

and reminisces from people whose lives were involved with San Jose Japantown

Koi No Shizuku - Shizuko Adachi

A bipartisan visionary who championed political civility he is a change maker whose legacy includes a lifelong commitment to social justice

The population drifted through various parts of the city and finally settled in the Western Addition after the 1906 earthquake

Hinokuni Daiko

Despite the War Relocation Authority's opposition to re-establishing Little Tokyo following the war Japanese Americans gradually restored the strong ties evident today in 21st-century Little Tokyo--a multicultural multigenerational community that is the largest Nihonmachi (Japantown) in the United States

Their only crime was looking like the enemy

About the Authors Author and local photographer James Nagareda grew up near San Jose's Japantown

Organized under the banner of the Fair Play Committee they were ready to fight for their country but not before the government restored their rights as U

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