The priceless legacy of an Asian American-collections of Yoshio Kishi

摘要

I am Eri Matsuda, from the National Diet Library（NDU）。 I was in charge of cataloging archival materials related to Japanese immigrants in the Modern Japanese Political History Materials Room in the NDL for one year and three months from 2017. I also studied at the M.A. Program in Archives and Public History of New York University（NYU） as a dispatched researcher from the NDL from 2018 to 2020. I happened to find out that there was a small overlap of the materials in the NDL and those in the NYU One of the NDL'S collections related to Japanese immigrants, called the Yoshio Kishi Collection, is also archived in the NYU Library. The original owner of the Yoshio Kishi Collection was Yoshio Kishi（1932-2012） a second-generation Japanese American born in New York.