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October 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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For #ShadowsMemoryArtifacts, we feature Jiro Kozai’s photo album of the 1939 NYC World’s Fair 🏛️

Kozai helped organize local support for the Japanese Pavilion ("Good Old Japan"). Explore his album in our online exhibit!

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Title: Shadows, Memory & Artifacts, New York World's Fair (1939) From the Jiro Kozai Collection. 9 photos of different ephemera from the collection are shown including four black and white photos of groups of people and 5 saved drawings, tickets, pamphlets and a stamp of the Japanese Pavilion from the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
October 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Help us identify a piece of our history! 🔍

This is Unidentified Issei #5 from our portrait collection, wearing glasses, a blazer & a white button-up. Please share this post to help us connect his face to a name and family story! 📜✨

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A portait photo of an older Japanese man from the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese's Issei Exhibit. He is currently unidentified. He is in a dark blazer, a white button up shirt and glasses.
October 30, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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For #ShadowsMemoryArtifacts, we honor Dr. Kinichi Iwamoto 🩺

Opening an Upper West Side practice in 1924, this Issei physician provided vital care & late-night house calls for NY’s Japanese community. Despite WWII detention at Ellis Island, he returned to serve his community. 📜✨

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Title: Shadows, Memory & Artifacts, Dr. Kinichi Iwamoto, The patient comes first, money second. Two images, one of Dr. Kinichi Iwamoto from the Issei portraits exhibit and another of the document of Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, that lists Dr. Iwamoto as one of the ment o be detained.
October 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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For #ShadowsMemoryArtifacts, we explore Jiro Kozai’s 1920s-30s postcard archive 📮

A true time capsule, these cards capture global travel and transpacific networks long before the digital age.

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Title: Shadows, Memory & Artifacts, Jiro Kozai Postcard Collection. There are 6 photos of postcards from the collection (with six more cut off on the sides of the page). The full postcards are from Japan, Berlin, New Jersey, New York, Mexico and maybe China.
October 23, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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October 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Part 1/3 | For #ShadowsMemoryArtifacts, we introduce Jiro Kozai—pre-WWII publisher of 'The Japanese-American' & President of the Japanese Association of NY. His family archive reveals a vibrant community destroyed by WWII detention & forced removal. 📜✨

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Three images of Jiro Kozai, one on the streets of New York City, one at a dinner party and one that's his ID card for the 1940 World's Fair in New York. There are two clips from index cards that detail the alien questionnaire he had to answer from the FBI in 1942 and his internment at Camp Uton, Long Island, New York in 1942. The title says "Shadows, Memory & Artifacts, Jiro Kozai, Journalist, Editor, Publisher, Community Leader".
October 21, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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For #ShadowsMemoryArtifacts, we honor writer & feminist Ayako Ishigaki (1903–1996). Living in Greenwich Village, she wrote for radical presses & published 'Restless Wave' (1940), linking women's rights & anti-militarism across international borders.
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Title says "Shadows, Memory & Artifacts. Restless Wave, by Ayako Ishigaki, writer and anti-war activist". There is a photo of the book with Ayako's pen name "Haru Matsui" and the sub-heading "My Life in Two Worlds". There is also a photo of Ayako with her husband, artist Eitaro.
October 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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October 14, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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October 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM