Japanese American Baseball History Project
Japanese American Baseball History Project - NJAHS
Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans in Baseball tells the one hundred year history of baseball in Japanese American communities.
Nisei Baseball Research Project
It consists of historical panels and prewar artifacts that chronicle the introduction of baseball to Japan in the early 1870's to the first Japanese American ...
Nisei Baseball Research Project - Wikipedia
The Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization documenting, preserving and exhibiting history of Japanese American ...
About Us - Nisei Baseball Research Project
The Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP) is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded by Kerry Yo Nakagawa to preserve the history of Japanese American ...
Diamonds in the Rough | Japanese American National Museum
Diamonds in the Rough: Japanese Americans in Baseball presents the hidden history of Japanese American baseball, from the turn-of-the-century Issei teams to ...
JAPANESE AMERICAN BASEBALL · PRE WW II Baseball was introduced to Japan by Horace Wilson in 1872 and quickly grew into a national sport. · WW II The United States ...
Japanese Americans play historic baseball games at prison camp to ...
The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII.
Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball
Explore the rich history of Japanese American baseball, from its early days ... Author Kerry Yo Nakagawa is the founder of the Nisei Baseball Research Project ...
Nisei Baseball Research Project - Facebook
The Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP) is a non- profit 501(c)3 organization founded by Kerry Yo Nakagawa to preserve the history of Japanese American ...
Kerry Yo Nakagawa, founder of the Nisei Baseball Research Project ...
Baseball has a rich history in the Japanese American community tracing back to the 19th century, but its origins and evolution aren't as ...
Manzanar Baseball Project | Japanese American National Museum
Baseball was a way for Japanese Americans to find a sense of normalcy, uplift their spirits, and claim a connection to American culture.
Japanese American Baseball Players Return to Manzanar ...
As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the ...
Zeni and the Legacy of Japanese American Baseball - JapanBall
This documentary was inspired by the work of the Nisei Baseball Research Project and its founder, Kerry Yo Nakagawa. Kerry Yo was a special guest on JapanBall's ...
Zeni and the Legacy of Japanese-American Baseball
This is an excellent documentary video about the little-known but fascinating history of Japanese-American baseball.
Baseball boosted Japanese Americans during internment. A field in ...
Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps and lost everything during the war. But baseball became a form of expression.
Japanese-America's Pastime: Baseball | Timeless
Japanese immigrants to the United States were deeply familiar with baseball: Japan had embraced it in the late 1800s. In 1871, Hiroshi Hiraoka ...
Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball
Like black players of that time the opportunity for the Nisei to compete was limited to the formation of Japanese leagues throughout the Western United States ...
Baseball in Japan and the US: History, Culture, and Future Prospects
American-Japanese baseball historian Robert K. Fitts identifies three players who had key roles in developing a strong baseball relationship between the United ...
Japanese American Baseball in California--A History - JANM Store
By Kerry Yo Nakagawa. (This an update of his 2001 classic Through a Diamond.) Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers ...
Diamonds in the Rough: Baseball and Japanese-American Internment
In his book, Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese-American Baseball, Kerry Yo Nakagawa, Director, Nisei Baseball Research Project (NBRP), ...