<div dir="ltr"><p style="border:0px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre is proud to announce the completion of our 2022-2023 digitization project <strong style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="border:0px;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Tegami: Reaching Out Across Distance</em></strong>. Over the last year, we digitized significant materials from the <a href="https://www.nikkeimuseum.org/www/collections_detail.php?col_id=F1613" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Eiji Yatabe Collection</a> and <a href="https://nikkeimuseum.org/www/collections_detail.php?col_id=F1584" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Shinobu Family Fonds</a> (collections), with a particular focus on hundreds of letters written during the 1940s forced uprooting and dispossession. Over forty of these letters are between close friends <strong style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Mariko Tokunaga</strong> and <strong style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Kazuko Shinobu</strong>, following each girl from their arrival at internment camps in the midst of their high school education to their moves out east to Ontario. With continued support from the Yatabe family, these letters and other items are now digitized and available for viewing in our database at <a href="https://nikkeimuseum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">nikkeimuseum.org</a>.</font></p><p style="border:0px;font-size:16px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you to the University of British Columbia’s Irving K Barber <a href="https://ikblc.ubc.ca/initiatives/bcdigitinfo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">BC History Digitization Program</a> for their support.</font></span></p><p style="border:0px;font-size:16px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The project team is Sherri Kajiwara, Lisa Uyeda, and Sam Frederick.<br></font></span></p><p style="border:0px;font-size:16px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please visit our <a href="https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/2023/03/02/tegami/" style="">website</a> for more project information.</font></span></p><p style="border:0px;font-family:"Nunito Sans";font-size:16px;margin:1em 0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(22,22,22)"><span style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#666666">Nichola Ogiwara</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:#666666">　</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Kozuka Gothic Pr6N R",sans-serif;color:#666666">荻原にこら</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"></span></p>

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