ARCHIVES - AMERICAN INTERVIEWS

Since May 2022, a total of 40 oral history and written interviews of ‘Jewpanese’ people and families based in the U.S. have been collected by Carmel Tanaka for the Jewpanese Project, an international multi-phase community project at the intersection of being Jewish and Japanese. The majority of American interviews were collected thanks to Carmel’s fellowship with the Anti-Defamation League Collaborative for Change Fellow (2022-2023) and aggregated data from 35 of those interviews (up until April 2025) were used to produce the Research Report: The Jewpanese American Experience, thanks to a Jews of Color Initiative research grant (June 2023).

Please note: Each interviewee provided Carmel consent to film and/or share the content from their interview. It is important to Carmel that everyone feels comfortable with their profile. Due to safety concerns, a number of these interviews were conducted anonymously. Carmel continues to receive requests for interviews and welcomes written interviews to add to the archives.