Nobuko Miyamoto--120,000 Stories

It’s been some 80 years since 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated in internment camps across the Pacific Coast during World War II and 50 years after people of Japanese Descent came together to form the committee against Nihonmachi (the equivalent of Japan town) eviction, as Japanese Americans faced generations of discrimination and displacement even decades into the aftermath of the relocation and internment camp experience. It’s also been 50 years since the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California became a fixture in San Francisco. As the center celebrates its anniversary, singer, songwriter, dancer and author Nobuko Miyamoto is bringing a performance inspired by her latest album 120,000 to San Francisco on August 5, 2023.