The East Asian-Latin World: Getting Started

This digital exhibition depicts the history of Japanese emigration to Brazil chiefly through materials held by the National Library of Japan. These materials include items such as diaries, letters and notes, photos, printed materials, as well as publications like books, newspapers, and magazines in Japanese published in Brazil, but also Peru and Hawaii.

This digital collection contains almost all of the passenger lists of the pre-WWII era emigration ships registered by the Japanese Emigration Companies.

This is an initiative by faculty at the University of São Paulo to digitize books and mostly unpublished documents related to Nikkei (descendants of Japanese immigrants) in Brazil.

The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America. The nature of the newspapers varies significantly from community-focused to political or military propaganda depending on the political conditions and target readership.

This is a family album compiled by a Japanese Peruvian family. The photographs depict the lives of Japanese Peruvians from 1930-1950. Included are photographs of plantation laborers, baseball players, men's club activities, and family portraits.

Part of California State University, Dominguez Hills' Japanese-American Digitization Project, this collection contains research materials on Japanese-Peruvian internment during World War II, collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSUDH. Included are correspondence, documents, newspaper articles, term papers, and photographs. The materials in the collection primarily relate to a World War II-era U.S. government program to intern Japanese Latin Americans in the United States and contains personal documents belonging to Japanese-Peruvian internees.

JPOHP is the leading community resource promoting the documentation, preservation, and interpretation of the World War II experiences of Japanese Latin Americans, who survived US government, internment, prisoner exchange, and forced deportation, and their struggle for redress.

The Chinese Immigrants in Cuba collection includes hundreds of original documents, manuscripts and photos covering the migration of 125,000 Chinese who signed up to be cheap labor in Cuba from 1847 until the later 1890s. The archive continues until the 1970s and records the Chinese community in Cuba and is rich with photos. This massive collection, from the archive of James and Ana Melikian Collection, is probably the largest one in private hands concerning Chinese in Cuba.

A digitized archive of material related to Chinese in Cuba from 1918-2019

Pok Chi Lau is a professional photographer who focuses on the Chinese diaspora.

A documentary about Cantonese opera in Havana