RECENT PROJECTS

We've been working with the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community to document a number of important historical and contemporary issues.

BIJAC Interviews

We have been honored by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community to document the histories of their more senior members. As was depicted in the historical novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, the Japanese-Americans living on Bainbridge Island were the first to be removed to camps at the start of WWII. This historical accident, and the fact that these people were an integral and valued part of the island community, makes their histories particularly important to record. We are also documenting the creation of the WWII Nikkei Memorial being built at Pritchard Park. Portions of the oral histories will eventually be included in a display at the park’s interpretive center

Tomodachi

Tomodachi, a series of three short videos for the Washington Civil Liberties Public Education Program, examines the stories of the World War II relationships between the Bainbridge Island Japanese-American community and the Filipino immigrants who worked on the Japanese-American strawberry farms, the Seattle Japanese Baptist Church and members of the Bainbridge Island community, and a contemporary civil liberties case and its relationship to the Japanese American internment.