San Jose Japantown History Book Project
San Jose Japantown: A Journey 1890 to 2010, is scheduled for publication at towards the end of 2011. The book is the result of many years of research. It covers the origins of Nihonmachi (San Jose Japantown) up to the present day and contains photos from public and private collections.
Click here to view a Flash movie about the San Jose Japantown Book Project. Be sure your computer has Flash and QuickTime installed.
The San Jose Japantown history book is being produced by Jim Nagareda, Janice Oda, Curt Fukuda, Ralph Pearce, June Hayashi, Monica Smith, Connie Fukuda and Ward Shimizu. Profits from sales of the book will be donated to the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj).
Contributions (including oral histories, the lending of photos, memorabilia, home movies, and video.) are welcome.
You can follow the progress of the book project on Facebook at "San Jose Japantown History Book."
Contact Jim Nagareda at
Janice Oda at
Curt Fukuda at
Day of Remembrance, February 17, 1985
Photorgraph Copyright © Curt Fukuda. All Rights Reserved.
Note: Originally, the San Jose Japantown book project was an interactive CD-ROM with a virtual-reality tour of Nihonmachi using QuickTime VR technology. The CD-ROM has been dropped to focus on a book. Hopefully, the materials created for the CD-ROM will be used in a future exhibition.