Densho

Provide a comprehensive educational resource to help all americans know the history and understand the lessons of the world war ii japanese american incarceration. This includes the creation and maintenance of the nationally acclaimed online densho encyclopedia with approximately 1,500 articles, educational curricula used annually by millions, and programming for the general public with subject matter experts.

Create and maintain a sophisticated digital repository of primary source materials related to the world war ii incarceration of japanese americans. The collection is entirely digital and can be accessed online for free. The materials in the digital repository are integrated with a detailed names database of the 125,000+ japanese americans and japanese nationals who were incarcerated during wwii along with a map-based module called sites of shame which exhibits the 90+ detention facilities.