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Six W.W.II internment camp survivors volunteered to demonstrate the process of art therapy while helping others and themselves to gain a better understanding of their experiences.

Set in a Japanese relocation camp during WWII, this fact-based story chronicles the journey of an American family torn apart by forced incarceration, a father's decision that challenges his son to find strength, and ultimately his son's triumph…

Puyallup Valley JACL's Mochi Tsuki celebration. Mochi Tsuki is the Japanese tradition of the pounding of mochi or rice cakes and is celebrated during New Year's.

Uses historical film footage, maps, old photographs, newspaper clippings, comic strips, handbills, and anti-Japanese literature to show the turmoil experienced by Japanese-Americans during World War II. Discusses the use of detention camps, focusing…

Tells the history of post-Indian settlement on Bainbridge Island, emphasizing logging and mills, farming, particularly starwberries and the community reaction to the relocation of the inhabitants of Japanese ancestry. Uses historic photographs,…

The untold story of Chinese Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially during World War II. Twenty eight men and women share their stories, representing the 20,000 Chinese Americans who served their country in a wide variety of…

This video, funded by the USDA Forest Service, recounts the WIng Luke Asian Museum's 1994 Chinese Heritage Bus Tour. The five-day Chinese Heritage Tour of the American West chronicles historical sites in Oregon and Idaho. These sites, many of which…

By means of historic footage plus dramatized reenactments, traces the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, especially the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 which resulted in the detention of Chinese immigrants at the Angel Island Immigration…

Tells the story of Hazel Ying Lee, a Chinese-American who grew up in Portland, Oregon where she learned to fly. She later became a member of the WASPs, a group of over 1,000 pilots who became the first women to fly for the U.S. military and were used…

Tells the story of Seattle's Chinatown through the eyes of two decaying buildings, which were once the center of a vibrant immigrant community, but are now passing into an uncertain future