JAMsj History
Back when it was a 1-room exhibit, JARC (JAMsj’ predecessor) was located in this historic landmark building.
What is the Issei Memorial Building?
The sink in the gallery was picked up by Jimi Yamaichi from this incarceration camp.
What is Tule Lake?
The Japantown Farmer's Market runs during these months.
What is May to October?
The full name of oldest church still operating in San Jose Japantown, established in 1895.
What is Wesley United Methodist Church?
The number of fire extinguishers on the first floor of JAMsj.
What is 3?
This is the year that JAMsj was initially founded.
What is 1987?
This is the full name of JAMsj's previous rotating exhibit that opened in February 2026 & was set in the 1970s.
This Japanese American woman is the head coach of this year's WNBA championship team.
Who is Natalie Nakase?
This park is the site where the original Chinatown was established in 1890.
What is Heinlenville Park?
This 4 digit passcode logs into the square register… and is a significant year in JA history
What is 1941?
Until the current building was constructed in 2010, JAMsj was located in this local physician’s house.
Who is Dr. Toshio Ishikawa?
This is the name of the baseball team that is featured in the JAMsj gallery.
What is the San Jose Asahi Baseball Team?
This is the year that Kristi Yamaguchi won the gold medal in women’s singles figure skating.
What is 1992?
This popular hangout is located in the historic Ken Ying Low building on 6th street, 1 of Japantown’s 2 Historic Landmarks, and was once a popular Chinese restaurant.
What is Jtown Pizza?
This 4 digit passcode logs unlocks all the ipads in the gallery... and is another significant 4 digit number is JA history!
What is 9066?
This was JAMsj’s first employee, hired in 2017 as the part time Executive Director.
Who is Jim Nagareda?
These are the full names of the 3 people involved in the Coram Nobis Cases.
Who are Gordan Hirabayashi, Minoru Yasui, and Fred Korematsu?
These are two sports that Judi Oyama has competed in. (be specific as possible)
What are slalom skateboarding and CrossFit?
The name of the grocery store that previously occupied where Nijiya is
What is Dobashi?
This docent has led the most group tours in 2026 with 27 group tours completed.
Who is Leslie Kim?
These 4 people are credited with founding JAMsj.
Who are Eiichi Sakauye, Jimi Yamaichi, Gary Okihiro, and Ken Iwagaki?
This is the full name of a low-slung tractor in our ag exhibit. The advantage of this tractor was that famers could avoid damaging branches of orchard fruit trees.
What is the Lindeman-John Deere Crawler Tractor?
This K-pop star was rumored to be at JAMsj & in Japantown this past May.
Who is RM?
The two longest running businesses in Japantown.
What is Nichi Bei Bussan and Kogura Co.?
This is the only board member to serve two nonconsecutive terms on the board.
Who is Dr. Steve Fugita?