{"id":"An American History: Resettlement of Japanese Americans in Greater Cleveland (film)","doctype":"articles","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/An%20American%20History:%20Resettlement%20of%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20Greater%20Cleveland%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/An%20American%20History:%20Resettlement%20of%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20Greater%20Cleveland%20(film)/"},"title_sort":"americanhistory","description":"Oral history-based documentary centering on Japanese Americans who resettled in Cleveland after leaving the concentration camps. Directed by Greg Petusky and Johnny Wu, the film was funded in part by a grant from the Japanese American Citizen's League's National Endowment Fund. 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Directed by Greg Petusky and Johnny Wu, the film was funded in part by a grant from the Japanese American Citizen's League's National Endowment Fund. It debuted at a screening at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History on April 8, 2000.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Good Luck Soup (film)/\" title=\"Good Luck Soup (film)\">\n    Good Luck Soup\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (2016);\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Relocation, Arkansas: Aftermath of Incarceration (film)/\" title=\"Relocation, Arkansas: Aftermath of Incarceration (film)\">\n    Relocation, Arkansas: Aftermath of Incarceration\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (2016);\n  <i>\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Invisible_Citizen_(film)\" title=\"Invisible Citizen (film)\">\n    Invisible Citizen\n   </a>\n  </i>\n  (1983)\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n  <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n   <h2>\n    <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n     Related Articles\n    </span>\n   </h2>\n   <div class=\"section_content\">\n    <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n    </p>\n    <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n     <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n      <h3>\n       <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n       </span>\n      </h3>\n      <div class=\"section_content\">\n       <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n       </p>\n       <ul>\n        <li>\n         <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dramatic_films/videos_on_incarceration\" title=\"Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\">\n          Dramatic films/videos on incarceration\n         </a>\n        </li>\n       </ul>\n      </div>\n     </div>\n    </div>\n   </div>\n  </div>\n </div>\n <div class=\"alert alert-success published\">\n  <p>\n   This page is complete and will be published to the production Encyclopedia.\n  </p>\n </div>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   <i>\n    An American History\n   </i>\n   on\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://vimeo.com/2335910\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Vimeo\n   </a>\n   .\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.mdifilm.com/mdifilm/OralHistory/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Official website\n   </a>\n   .\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250626170044\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.029 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.037 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 409/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 9146/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1599/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   17.140      1 -total\n 23.93%    4.102      1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 19.88%    3.407      1 Template:Databox-Films\n 19.76%    3.387      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 12.05%    2.065      2 Template:Published\n 12.00%    2.057      1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 11.95%    2.049      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 10.99%    1.884      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3208-0!canonical and timestamp 20250626170044 and revision id 28476\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}