Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
What if you could hear the voices of your great grandparents? Seattle's Northwest Nikkei Museum maintains a collection of homemade audio recordings from the region's Japanese American community. Each record captures music and spoken words from the 1930s onward, including recordings made in WWII incarceration camps. Musician and archivist Mako Kikuchi is leading the effort to digitize and preserve these voices for future generations. This preservation project was funded in part by a grant from 4Culture, King County's cultural funding agency.
What if you could hear the voices of your great grandparents? Seattle's Northwest Nikkei Museum maintains a collection of homemade audio recordings from the region's Japanese American community. Each record captures music and spoken words from the 1930s onward, including recordings made in WWII incarceration camps. Musician and archivist Mako Kikuchi is leading the effort to digitize and preserve these voices for future generations. This preservation project was funded in part by a grant from 4Culture, King County's cultural funding agency.
