National Japanese American Historical Society is a non-profit member supported organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of the Japanese American experience.

Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of ...

A Short Chronology of Japanese American History Adapted from Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present Edited by Brian Niiya (New York: Facts-on-File, 1993). May 17, 1868 The Scioto set sail out of Yokohama for Hawaii, carrying 153 Japanese migrants bound for employment on the sugar plantations. These adventurers constituted the first mass emigration of Japanese ...

Japanese Town ~*~ Nihonjin-Machi Welcome to the Japanese Town Archives. Before the 1906 earthquake, the majority of San Francisco's Japanese-American citizens lived either south of Market Street or in the Chinatown area. After the quake, Japanese Town, as it was called then, moved to the Fillmore district, occupying an area roughly bounded by California Street to the north, O'Farrell Street to ...