“All the World’s A-Fairs” Japanese Involvement in the 1939 Exposition from Personal, National, and International Perspectives, by Noah Barth

“All the World’s A-Fairs” Japanese Involvement in the 1939 Exposition from Personal, National, and International Perspectives, by Noah Barth

This project was initially inspired by Kaneji Domoto’s work in both the 1939 New York World’s Fair and 1939 International Exposition in San Francisco. These fairs came right before Japanese incarceration and WWII, so I decided to look at 1939 in depth instead of Japanese …

Iwahiko Tsumanuma: New York City, 1915, by Matthew Hines

Iwahiko Tsumanuma: New York City, 1915, by Matthew Hines

Japanese-American architect Iwahiko Tsumanuma recorded his impressions of life in New York City in a diary. Collected below are a few places he visited and routes he charted, along with the kinds of everyday images he may have seen.