Main Gallery Video Display

(2023, 60 minutes)

Video content by order of appearance:

1. Liberty Lost… Lessons in Loyalty, Part 4 (2002, 15 minutes)

The April 2, 2002 re-enactment of the 1942 forced removal and incarceration of 1,160 Japanese Americans from Watsonville to the Salinas “Assembly Center” at the Salinas Rodeo Grounds and at Poston “Relocation Center” in Arizona. Presented by the Watsonville-Santa Cruz JACL.

2. Interview of Nancy Ukai (2022, 7 minutes)

Nancy Ukai, a Sansei (3rd generation), discusses how her family talked about the mass incarceration, her mother’s 1981 redress testimony, and white ally Harriet Platt, who helper her mother leave the Topaz camp and move to Chicago.

3. Interview of Chizu Omori (2022, 10 minutes)

Former incarceree Chizu Omori describes Tsuru (Cranes) for Solidarity, a protest for immigrant rights at the Dilley detention facility, and the power of building coalitions among people of color.

4. Interview of Susan Hayase I (2023, 8 minutes)

Susan Hayase explains why the redress campaign by the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations emphasized supporting and building solidarity with other communities and how Japanese American history is intertwined with the histories of other people of color.

5. Interview of Susan Hayase II (2023, 4 minutes)

Susan Hayase discusses how the #DontExcludeUs Project showed parallels between discrimination against Japanese Americans, anti-Mexican/Latinx bigotry, and anti-Muslim attacks.

6. Hidden Histories of San Jose Japantown (2021, 14 minutes)

Susan Hayase and Tom Izu, a UCSC alumnus, explain the development of Hidden Histories of San Jose Japantown, how the history of this Japantown connects to the histories of Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans, and the use of augmented reality technology to foster collaborations between artists, scholars, and community activists.

7. Lucien Kubo’s Winds of Change (2021, 3 minutes)

“Winds of Change,” a Hidden Histories augmented reality experience at the corner of 5th and Jackson in San Jose’s Japantown, was designed by Santa Cruz artist and activist Lucien Kubo and shows how Japanese American, Chinese American, and Filipino American activists joined the social movements and cultural explosion of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and today.

Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey

(2021, 28 minutes)

Directed by Reiko Fujii, Na Omi Judy Shintani, Ellen Bepp, Shari Arai DeBoer, and Kathy Fujii-Oka

Follows the artful journey of five Sansei (3rd generation) women artists as they traveled to the 2018 Manzanar Pilgrimage to honor their ancestors who were unjustly imprisoned during World War II.

Tales of Clamor

(2023, 1 hour, 48 minutes)

Directed by traci kato-kiriyama, Kennedy Kabasares, and Dan Kwong

Performance at Bing Theatre, USC

This theatrical case study examines the sound of silence, the reverberations of the Japanese American mass incarceration, and the need for dialogue and collective action to address racism and threats to safety today.

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Tales of Clamor

Greenway Court Theatre in Conversation With Kathy Masaoka & traci kato-kiriyama

(2023, 11 minutes)

Greenway Court Theatre Intern Ellora Gordon discusses with Kathy Masaoka and traci kato-kiriyama cross-cultural solidarity, reparations, activism, art, and organizing.