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D. Brown Foundation Special Exhibit Gallery on March 15, 2014, and ran through October 12, 2014. The exhibition featured the photographs of\n  \n   Dorothea Lange\n  \n  ,\n  \n   Ansel Adams\n  \n  , and Bill Mambo along with objects and video interviews. In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum put on a slate of public programs including book events, lectures, and film screenings, and incorporated curricular material and a webinar aimed at school children. The exhibition was funded in part by the Annenberg Foundation and the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation. The National World War II Museum opened in New Orleans in 2000 at the National D-Day Museum.","url_title":"From Barbed Wire to Battlefields: Japanese American Experiences in WWII (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Heroism - real and perceived","War - glory, necessity, pain, tragedy","Displacement","Evils of racism"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Executive Order 9066 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"1 1/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Executive%20Order%209066%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Executive%20Order%209066%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Executive Order 9066 (exhibition)","description":"Landmark photographic exhibition on the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans curated by Richard and Maisie Conrat for the California Historical Society in 1972. 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Debuting at JANM in 2001, the exhibition subsequently traveled to Sacramento and to Arkansas.","url_title":"Henry Sugimoto: Painting an American Experience (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Immigration experience","Displacement"],"rg_availability":["Limited availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Hiroshi Honda: Detained (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"4 4/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Hiroshi%20Honda:%20Detained%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Hiroshi%20Honda:%20Detained%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Hiroshi Honda: Detained (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition featuring the internment art of\n  \n   Hiroshi Honda\n  \n  at the Honolulu Academy of Art (HAA) which ran from June 21 to September 9, 2012.\n  \n   Hiroshi Honda: Detained\n  \n  , was the HAA's second exhibition of Honda's art, after\n  \n\n    Reflections of Internment: The Art of Hawaii's Hiroshi Honda\n   \n\n  in 1994. The exhibition included drawings and watercolors produced during Honda's internment in camps in Hawai'i and in the continental U.S. drawn from the HAA's permanent collection.","url_title":"Hiroshi Honda: Detained (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers","Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Evils of racism","Displacement"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Relics from Camp (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"5 5/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Relics%20from%20Camp%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Relics%20from%20Camp%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Relics from Camp (exhibition)","description":"Art installation by Kristine Yuki Aono that debuted at the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  (JANM) in 1996. The installation featured soil collected by the artist at each of the ten\n  \n   War Relocation Authority\n  \n  camp sites installed in shallow 3 x 3 square boxes on the floor with glass over them. At each venue, Aono sought community members who lent personal objects from themselves or other family members who had been in each camp that were installed in that camp's box. The exhibition was viewed by walking on the glass over the boxes.","url_title":"Relics from Camp (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Injustice"],"rg_readinglevel":["Adult"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"6 6/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Undaunted%20Courage,%20Proven%20Loyalty:%20Japanese%20American%20Soldiers%20in%20World%20War%20II%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Undaunted%20Courage,%20Proven%20Loyalty:%20Japanese%20American%20Soldiers%20in%20World%20War%20II%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition on Japanese Americans in the military during World War II that was organized by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Public History Program in 2004.\n  \n   Undaunted Courage\n  \n  included the stories of the\n  \n   100th Infantry Battalion\n  \n  ,\n  \n   442nd Regimental Combat Team\n  \n  , and\n  \n   Military Intelligence Service\n  \n  as well as a kiosk featuring stories of Japanese American veterans collected by the Go For Broke National Education Center. The exhibition was one of eight exhibitions in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area that were part of the\n  \n   Life Interrupted\n  \n  project, a collaboration between the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Three of the exhibitions, all on some aspect of the Japanese American military experience, were displayed at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, the other two being\n  \n\n    Beyond the Call of Duty: Honoring the 24 Japanese American Medal of Honor Recipients\n   \n\n  and\n  \n\n    Witness: Our Brothers' Keepers\n   \n\n  .","url_title":"Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Heroism - real and perceived","Patriotism - positive side or complications","War - glory, necessity, pain, tragedy"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"U.S. Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"7 7/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/U.S.%20Detention%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/U.S.%20Detention%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"U.S. Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","description":"Traveling exhibition organized by the National Japanese American Historical Society (NJAHS) that debuted in April 1990. Consisting of ninety framed photographs with captions, text panels, and titles,\n  \n   U.S. Detention Camps\n  \n  was likely the first exhibition to go beyond the story of the ten\n  \n   War Relocation Authority\n  \n  administered camps to include the so-called \"\n  \n   assembly centers\n  \n  \" as well as the\n  \n   enemy alien detention camps\n  \n  administered by the army and by the Justice Department as a part of the larger story. Aiming, in the words of project directory and NJAHS president\n  \n   Clifford Uyeda\n  \n  , to tell the full story \"from the beginning of the experience to the end,\" the exhibition begins with the\n  \n   anti-Japanese movement\n  \n  and stretches through the\n  \n   Redress Movement\n  \n  , while also depicting inmate resistance, and controversially, suicides.\n  \n\n    [1]\n   \n\n  Venues for\n  \n   U.S. Detention Camps\n  \n  included the Jimmy Carter Museum in Atlanta, Georgia; the Swords to Plowshare Gallery in Detroit, Michigan; and Stanford University's Meyer Library.","url_title":"U.S. Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Evils of racism","Displacement","Injustice"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"8 8/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Whispered%20Silences:%20Japanese%20American%20Detention%20Camps,%20Fifty%20Years%20Later%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Whispered%20Silences:%20Japanese%20American%20Detention%20Camps,%20Fifty%20Years%20Later%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later (exhibition)","description":"Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) exhibition that featured photographs of former Japanese American concentration camp sites shot during the 1980s by artist Joan Myers. Debuting in 1995, the exhibition traveled around the country for the next four years. It was accompanied by a book published by the University of Washington Press titled\n  \n   Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II\n  \n  , which includes her photographs along with Gary Okihiro's historical/autobiographical overview of Japanese American history.","url_title":"Whispered Silences: Japanese American Detention Camps, Fifty Years Later (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Power of the past"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Witness: Our Brothers' Keepers (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"9 9/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Witness:%20Our%20Brothers'%20Keepers%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Witness:%20Our%20Brothers'%20Keepers%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Witness: Our Brothers' Keepers (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition on Japanese Americans and Jewish Americans in the military during World War II and their participation in the liberation of Nazi extermination camps organized by the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  (JANM) and the National Museum of American Jewish Military History.\n  \n   Witness\n  \n  debuted in on April 20, 1995, in JANM's Legacy Center Gallery to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. 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Of the twenty-four Japanese American recipients, twenty-one were honored for their service during World War II.\n  \n   Beyond the Call of Duty\n  \n  was one of eight exhibitions in the Little Rock, Arkansas, area that were part of the\n  \n   Life Interrupted\n  \n  project, a collaboration between JANM and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Three of the exhibitions, all on some aspect of the\n  \n   Japanese American military experience\n  \n  , were displayed at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, the other two being\n  \n\n    Witness: Our Brothers' Keepers\n   \n\n  and\n  \n\n    Undaunted Courage, Proven Loyalty: Japanese American Soldiers in World War II\n   \n\n  .","url_title":"Beyond the Call of Duty: Honoring the 24 Japanese American Medal of Honor Recipients (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Patriotism - positive side or complications","Heroism - real and perceived"],"rg_availability":["Limited availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Crossings: 10 Views of America's Concentration Camps (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"11 11/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Crossings:%2010%20Views%20of%20America's%20Concentration%20Camps%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Crossings:%2010%20Views%20of%20America's%20Concentration%20Camps%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Crossings: 10 Views of America's Concentration Camps (exhibition)","description":"2009 exhibition at the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  featuring the work of ten artists, juxtaposing work created by\n  \n   Issei\n  \n  and\n  \n   Nisei\n  \n  artists in the concentration camps and works by contemporary artists that draw on that experience. The \"crossings\" in the title refers to the \"crossing point between generations\" that the exhibition strives to provide. Featured artists included Sesshu Foster,\n  \n   Masumi Hayashi\n  \n  ,\n  \n   Hisako Hibi\n  \n  ,\n  \n   Toyo Miyatake\n  \n  , Tadashi Nakamura,\n  \n   Benji Okubo\n  \n  ,\n  \n   Mine Okubo\n  \n  , Shizu Saldamando, Renee Tajima-Peña, and\n  \n   Sadayuki Uno\n  \n  .\n  \n   Crossings\n  \n  opened on April 2, 2009.","url_title":"Crossings: 10 Views of America's Concentration Camps (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Desire to escape"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Fighting for Tomorrow: Japanese Americans in America's Wars (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"12 12/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Fighting%20for%20Tomorrow:%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20America's%20Wars%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Fighting%20for%20Tomorrow:%20Japanese%20Americans%20in%20America's%20Wars%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Fighting for Tomorrow: Japanese Americans in America's Wars (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition on Japanese Americans in the American armed forces that debuted at the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  (JANM) in 1995.","url_title":"Fighting for Tomorrow: Japanese Americans in America's Wars (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Patriotism - positive side or complications","War - glory, necessity, pain, tragedy","Injustice"],"rg_availability":["Limited availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Children of Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"13 13/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Children%20of%20Detention%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Children%20of%20Detention%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Children of Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","description":"Traveling exhibition produced by the National Japanese American Historical Society that debuted in February 1992 at San Francisco City Hall. The sixty-panel photo exhibition looked at the incarceration experience from the perspective of children, who made up a significant portion of affected Japanese Americans. In addition to Japanese American youth, the exhibition includes the experiences of Aleuts and\n  \n   Japanese Latin Americans\n  \n  in the U.S. detention camps. A follow up to the 1990 exhibition\n  \n\n    U.S. Detention Camps, 1942–1946\n   \n\n  ,\n  \n   Children of Detention Camps\n  \n  was displayed at the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California and Children's Museum of Indianapolis among other venues.","url_title":"Children of Detention Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Coming of age","Growing up - pain or pleasure"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"14 14/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Japanese%20Immigrants%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20the%20War%20Era%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Japanese%20Immigrants%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20the%20War%20Era%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition on Japanese Americans during World War II at the National Museum of Japanese History in Chiba, Japan. Displayed from March 16, 2010, to April 3, 2011,\n  \n   Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era\n  \n  commemorated the opening of the approximately 7,500 square foot Sixth Exhibition Gallery (which displays contemporary history) at the National Museum of Japanese History (hereafter Rekihaku).\n  \n\n    [1]\n   \n\n  The special exhibition was the first at a Japanese national institution to focus on Japanese Americans, attempting to bring them into the mainstream of Japanese history.","url_title":"Japanese Immigrants in the United States and the War Era (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Immigrant experience"],"rg_availability":["No availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"15 15/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Art%20of%20Gaman:%20Arts%20and%20Crafts%20from%20the%20Japanese%20American%20Internment%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Art%20of%20Gaman:%20Arts%20and%20Crafts%20from%20the%20Japanese%20American%20Internment%20Camps,%201942-1946%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","description":"Traveling exhibition highlighting art and craft objects made by incarcerated Japanese Americans in wartime concentration camps. Curated by Delphine Hirasuna and based on the 2005 book of the same name,\n  \n   The Art of Gaman\n  \n  exhibition has traveled to fourteen venues since its debut in 2006.","url_title":"The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Displacement","Beauty of simplicity"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (film)","model":"article","index":"16 16/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Honor%20Bound:%20A%20Personal%20Journey%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Honor%20Bound:%20A%20Personal%20Journey%20(film)/"},"title":"Honor Bound: A Personal Journey (film)","description":"Documentary film that tells the story of the\n  \n   442nd Regimental Combat Team\n  \n  through the story of one soldier, Haruo Howard \"Howe\" Hanamura, and his daughter, television reporter Wendy Hanamura, who travel to Europe in October 1994 for 50th anniversary ceremonies of the liberation of Bruyeres and Biffontaine by the 442nd. The film was produced by the\n  \n   National Japanese American Historical Society\n  \n  (NJAHS) and KPIX, San Francisco, where Wendy Hanamura was a news reporter. 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The exhibition features forty-five photographs by Farm Security Administration photographer\n  \n   Russell Lee\n  \n  , who photographed farm labor camps that housed the Japanese Americans, including one in\n  \n   Nyssa\n  \n  , Oregon. The exhibition also includes a short video that include interviews with several Japanese Americans who worked as farm laborers.","url_title":"Uprooted: Japanese American Farm Labor Camps during World War II (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["History"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Necessity of work"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"18 18/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20View%20from%20Within:%20Japanese%20American%20Art%20from%20the%20Internment%20Camps,%201942-1945%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20View%20from%20Within:%20Japanese%20American%20Art%20from%20the%20Internment%20Camps,%201942-1945%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 (exhibition)","description":"The first-ever national exhibition of more than 130 paintings and other works of art produced by Japanese American artists during their incarceration in the World War II American concentration camps, timed to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of the signing of\n  \n   Executive Order 9066\n  \n  , which authorized the mass incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. The exhibition was curated by Karin Higa and jointly coordinated by the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  , the UCLA Wight Art Gallery, and the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. It first opened at the Wight Art Gallery in Los Angeles on October 13, 1992, and ran until December 6, 1992, then subsequently traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art (January 15-April 10, 1994), Salt Lake Art Center (July 1994), Honolulu Academy of Arts (September 1994), and the Queens Museum New York (May 11-July 16, 1995).","url_title":"The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945 (exhibition)","categories":["Chroniclers"],"rg_rgmediatype":["exhibitions"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 3-5","Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Art","History"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Displacement","Injustice"],"rg_availability":["Limited availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Museum Exhibitions","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-university"},{"id":"The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects (film)","model":"article","index":"19 19/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Art%20of%20Gaman:%20The%20Story%20Behind%20the%20Objects%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Art%20of%20Gaman:%20The%20Story%20Behind%20the%20Objects%20(film)/"},"title":"The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects (film)","description":"A short documentary film created by Rick Quan in 2010 to accompany the traveling exhibition,\n  \n\n    The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946\n   \n\n  which features arts and crafts created by Japanese American internees while living in World War II concentration camps. The film includes stories about the inmates who created the objects included in the exhibition, as told by their children and grandchildren. It also includes an interview with the exhibition's curator, Delphine Hirasuna, who describes\n  \n   The Art of Gaman'\n  \n  s purpose of celebrating the unique talents of these camp artists and helping people understand the larger story of the Japanese American mass confinement. The DVD release also includes\n  \n\n    Voices Long Silent\n   \n   ,\n  \n  a 1980 short film by Bob Matsumoto, that was also shown in conjunction with\n  \n   The Art of Gaman\n  \n  exhibition.","url_title":"The Art of Gaman: The Story Behind the Objects (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Expression through art","Will to survive"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"The Bitter Memory: America's Concentration Camps (film)","model":"article","index":"20 20/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Bitter%20Memory:%20America's%20Concentration%20Camps%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Bitter%20Memory:%20America's%20Concentration%20Camps%20(film)/"},"title":"The Bitter Memory: America's Concentration Camps (film)","description":"Early film that provides an overview of the wartime forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast produced by the University of California, Berkeley in 1975.\n  \n   Bitter Memory\n  \n  tells the story through narration and interviews with former inmates accompanied by archival footage from\n  \n   Office of War Information/War Relocation Authority (WRA) films\n  \n  and WRA still photos. All footage—even contemporary interview footage and footage shot at\n  \n   Tule Lake\n  \n  —is in black and white. Identified inmate narrators include poet and playwright\n  \n   Hiroshi Kashiwagi\n  \n  , Mary Otani, Michi Mukai, and Kumito Ishida. The bulk of the film deals with living conditions in the concentration camps—the lack of privacy, the breaking up of the family unit, employment, food and so forth—along with the\n  \n   loyalty questionnaire\n  \n  and\n  \n   segregation\n  \n  . The film is also known as\n  \n   Bitter Memories: Tule Lake\n  \n  , even though only the last few minutes of the film focus on Tule Lake.","url_title":"The Bitter Memory: America's Concentration Camps (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Injustice"],"rg_availability":["Widely available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Something Strong Within (film)","model":"article","index":"21 21/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Something%20Strong%20Within%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Something%20Strong%20Within%20(film)/"},"title":"Something Strong Within (film)","description":"Documentary film by pioneering director Robert A. Nakamura crafted out of amateur home movie footage shot in American concentration camps. Nakamura and producer/writer Karen L. Ishizuka produced\n  \n   Something Strong Within\n  \n  for the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  (JANM) as a companion piece to the exhibition\n  \n\n    America's Concentration Camps\n   \n\n  , curated by Ishizuka, which opened on November 11, 1994.","url_title":"Something Strong Within (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 6-8","Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Displacement","Will to survive"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"The Silent Glory (film)","model":"article","index":"22 22/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Silent%20Glory%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Silent%20Glory%20(film)/"},"title":"The Silent Glory (film)","description":"Documentary film on the\n  \n   442nd Regimental Combat Team\n  \n  . Relying on archival and newsreel footage along with interviews,\n  \n   The Silent Glory\n  \n  begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor on\n  \n   December 7, 1941\n  \n  and the subsequent mass forced removal of West Coast Japanese Americans, continuing with the struggle to restore eligibility to military service for Japanese Americans and the military history of the 442nd, and climaxing with the rescue of the\n  \n   Lost Battalion\n  \n  and the movement to award\n  \n   Congressional Medals of Honor\n  \n  many years later. Among those interviewed are George Katagiri, Kennie Namba,\n  \n   George Oiye\n  \n  , and Al Ouchi, along with Martin Higgins, one of the commanders of the \"Lost Battalion.\" Producer and director Zed Merrill specializes in making films about relatively little known aspects of World War II.","url_title":"The Silent Glory (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["War - glory, necessity, pain, tragedy","Heroism - real and perceived"],"rg_availability":["Limited availability"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)","model":"article","index":"23 23/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Color%20of%20Honor:%20The%20Japanese%20American%20Soldier%20in%20WWII%20(film)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/The%20Color%20of%20Honor:%20The%20Japanese%20American%20Soldier%20in%20WWII%20(film)/"},"title":"The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)","description":"A 1987 documentary film by Loni Ding that largely focuses on Japanese Americans who served in the\n  \n   Military Intelligence Service\n  \n  (MIS) during World War II. A sequel to Ding's 1983 film\n  \n\n    Nisei Soldier: Standard Bearer for an Exiled People\n   \n\n  , the two films were among the first and most influential films on the\n  \n   Nisei\n  \n  soldiers and both were critically acclaimed and widely viewed.","url_title":"The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII (film)","categories":["Arts"],"rg_rgmediatype":["films"],"rg_interestlevel":["Grades 9-12","Adult"],"rg_genre":["Documentary"],"rg_theme":["Patriotism - positive side or complications"],"rg_availability":["Available"],"rg_rgmediatype_label":"Films and Video","rg_rgmediatype_icon":"fa-film"},{"id":"Coming Home: Memories of Japanese American Resettlement (exhibition)","model":"article","index":"24 24/{'value': 54, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Coming%20Home:%20Memories%20of%20Japanese%20American%20Resettlement%20(exhibition)/","json":"https://resourceguide.densho.org/api/3.0/articles/Coming%20Home:%20Memories%20of%20Japanese%20American%20Resettlement%20(exhibition)/"},"title":"Coming Home: Memories of Japanese American Resettlement (exhibition)","description":"Exhibition organized by the\n  \n   Japanese American National Museum\n  \n  and curated by Darcie Iki and Jim Gatewood that explored the obstacles—such as housing and employment shortages and discrimination—that Japanese Americans faced after they left the confines of America's concentration camps. The exhibit opened on August 14, 1998, and ran until February 7, 1999. 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