Japanese Overseas Migration Museum
The Japanese Overseas Migration Museum ( English for Japanese 海外 移 住 資料 館 kaigai ijū shiryōkan ) in Yokohama describes the emigration of migrants from Japan .
The number of emigrated Japanese and their descendants is about 2.9 million and Yokohama, with the seat of the Japanese emigration authorities, was an important port for the departure of the emigrants. The museum shows the emigration of workers to Hawaii and of students to the American west coast in the second half of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, emigration to South America and Australia began.
The emigration is presented as a glorious success of the common multicultural settlement of America and Australia by the civilized Asian and European countries. And the narrative of overcoming racism and xenophobia is presented while excluding Japanese colonial policy in Asia and the occupation policy during World War II.
The operator of the museum is the kokusai kyōryoku kikō ( 国際 協力 機構 , lit. "Organization [for] international cooperation", English "JICA"), a dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin ("independent administrative body / self-governing body ", English "independent administrative institution") , "independent administrative corporation" and others) of the Japanese government.
Web links
- Website of the museum (Japanese, English, Portuguese, Spanish) at the "JICA"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Setsuko Kamiya: Overseas Japanese museums' representatives share ideas in Yokohama . Japan Times, November 7, 2012, accessed December 21, 2019.
- ^ The Japanese Overseas Migration Museum in Yokohama . Taiken Japan, July 3, 2015, accessed December 21, 2019.
- ↑ Masato Ninomiya: International Exchanges at Museu Histórico da Imigraçāo Japonesa no Brasil . In: Common Ground: The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations . University Press of Colorado, 2005, ISBN 0-87081-779-5 , p. 182.
Coordinates: 35 ° 27 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 139 ° 38 ′ 25.6 ″ E