Browse Items · The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present

Rokki Shimpo/Rocky Shimpo Newspaper

This newspaper is print of Japanese immigration to Hawai’i and the Americas, as well as their integration as this newspaper came in both English and Japanese.

Tags: 20th century, English, Hawai’i, Hawaii, Immigration, Integration, Japanese, Japanese American, languages, Newspaper, Rocky Shimpo, Rokki Shimpo

Japanese-American volunteers

This photograph is an image of a group of Japanese-American men, based in Kauai, who were receiving a physical examination test as they wanted to their part in the Second World War. Despite the fact that many of the young men in the photograph were…

Tags: 20th century, Conscription, Examination, Hawai’i, High school, Japanese, Japanese American, Japanese Immigration, Kauai, Migration, Military, Photograph, Second World War, War, WW2

Japanese Sugar Plantation Workers

This image shows Japanese sugar plantation workers on their home in Wainaku, clutching onto their very young children. Japanese immigrants first arrived in Hawai’i not long before this photograph was taken and akin to the Chinese immigrant’s…

Tags: 19th century, Chinese immigration, Employment, Family, Hawai’i, Hawaii, Immigrants, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Immigrants, Labourers, Photograph, Pineapple, Plantation, Sugar, Sugar Plantation, Wainaku, Workers

‘Aloha to Volunteers’ – photograph of the 442nd Infantry Regiment in Iolani Palace, Hawaii

This is a black and white photograph with unknown original size details. It is believed that the photograph was taken by a member of the U.S Army Signal Corps or U.S Navy. It shows a large combat group gathered at the Ionlani Palace, previously a…

Tags: 20th century, Camp Shelby, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Ionlani Palace, Japanese, Militarisation, Military, Mississippi, Pearl Harbour, Photograph, Second World War, US Army, US Army Signal Corps, US Military, US navy, Volunteers, World War Two, WW2

Japanese Canadians arriving at Tashme Camp

It is a photograph of Japanese Canadians arriving at Tashme Camp, which was a World War II internment camp in British Columbia. There is a long line of children, one to two deep, with some adults behind them. The centre of the picture shows a car,…

Tags: 20th century, Asian Immigration, British Columbia, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Racial Tensions, Second World War, Tashme Camp, Wartime Internment

Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia

The source is a black and white photograph of Japanese Canadian men being relocated in British Columbia.

The picture shows a group of males getting on board a train along with a women and child.

The photograph was taken in 1942 during the…

Tags: 20th century, Asian experience, British Columbia, Discrimination, Japanese, Japanese Internment Camps, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Political Discrimination, Race Relations, Racial Tensions, Railway, Second World War

Japanese Store, Honolulu

A photograph depicting a Japanese family in and around their store in Honolulu. The subjects are pictured in a mix of traditional and non-traditional clothing, and there is a sign in Japanese over the store. The image looks posed, as everyone is…

Tags: 19th century, Asian, Culture, East-Asian, Hawaii, Honolulu, Immigrant, Immigration, Japanese, Japanese Immigrant, Japanese Immigration, Photograph, Postcard

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