Yamanaka & Company
Heart Mountain Bungei, the First Issue 1943
Jiro Kozai's Internment Card at Ellis Island
Jiro Kozai, originally from Tottori Prefecture, immigrated to the U.S. in 1911. He was the president of the Japanese Association of New York and publisher and owner of a Japanese-language newspaper in New York.
He was interned at Ellis Island in 1941 and eventually sent back to Japan.
Joseph Heco visits New York in 1853
George Gentoku Shimamoto
Japanese Mutual Aid Society (Current Japanese American Association New York)
The Japan Society New York
Yasuo Matsui
Yasuo Matsui was born and raised in Japan and moved to the U.S. in 1898. He Attended M.I.T. and the University of California, Berkley, starting in 1902.
Matsui worked as a draftsman in the offices of several prominent New York architectural firms, and aacted as an associate or consulting architect on many buildings in New York City, including the Empire State Building and the Japanese Pavilion at the 1939 New York Word’s Fair.
On December 8, 1941, the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Matsui, along with many others, was arrested and held at an internment camp on Ellis Island for two months.
