About the Website

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This website was created by Denshō, a non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. Historical photographs and excerpts from interviews are provided from Densho’s digital archive. This website was produced with support from the United States-Japan Foundation.

About Denshō
Denshō, “伝承” in Japanese, is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 in Seattle, Washington, to collect and preserve video oral histories documenting Japanese American history. The free Denshō Digital Repository offered contains almost 1,200 interviews and nearly 100,000 historical photos and documents. Our archival materials range from late 19th-century immigration from Japan, through the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, to the redress legislation of 1988 that called for an official apology by the U.S. president. The website receives 150,000 global visitors each year. Denshō has received honors including the Washington Humanities award, an American Library Association citation, and the Japanese American Citizens League biennium award.

Credits
Project management: Naomi Ostwald Kawamura
Design: BIMO Design & Development
Editorial: Brian Niiya and Patricia Kiyono
Translation: Naoko Tanabe
Photo editing: Dana Hoshide
Historical photographs and interview excerpts: Denshō Digital Repository

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No reproduction or republication without written permission