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Generations: A Japanese American Community Portrait, is a photographic journal chronicling the life of the first Japanese American community in the United States of America, located in San Francisco, California.
Through family and archival photos over 100 years old to the present, Generations captures not only the essence of an American immigrant community’s hopes and dreams, it exemplifies America’s greatest tragedies and triumphs from the people who lived it.
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Introduction by Paul Osaki, Executive Director, Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California. Contributing writers include: Wendy Tokuda (KRON-TV), Lori Aratani (San Jose Mercury), Kerwin Berk (San Francisco Chronicle), Dianne Fukami (documentary producer/director), Robert Handa (KTVU-TV), Edward Iwata (USA Today), Ken Kashiwahara (former television news correspondent), Donna Kato (San Jose Mercury), Gary Kawaguchi (California State Dominguez Hills), Sheila Muto (The Wall Street Journal), Annie Nakao (San Francisco Chronicle), Dean Takahashi (The Wall Street Journal), John Tateishi (JACL), Patricia Wakida (Heyday Books), Diane Yen-Mei Wong (Hawaii Herald), Jan Yanehiro (formerly of KPIX-TV), Sandra Yoshizuki (formerly of AAJA and NAATA). Contributing photographers include Paul Kuroda, Robert Mizono, Paul Sakuma, Brad Shirakawa, Lea Suzuki, Isao Tanaka, Kazuhiro Tsuruta, and Rich Wada.
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"...this book deserves to be in every home to help make sense of the past, present and future possibilities." -- Nichi Bei Times, April, 2001
“...this is indeed a book that captures the soul of a community.” -- The Beam, February, 2000
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- PublisherJapanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California Publisher -
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0967660106
- ISBN 13 9780967660103
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages136
- EditorWong Diane Yen-Mei
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