Board chair Larry Greenwood (left) and board member and former JSNC president Kathleen Kimura (right) sift through documents while researching JSNC’s history.
Fighting Discrimination to Building Tech Ties
To commemorate our 120th anniversary, the Japan Society has published a history telling our story from our founding during a time of rising anti-Japanese discrimination in San Francisco and Japan’s emergence as a new regional power to today’s focus on Japan-Silicon Valley connections that promote entrepreneurship and innovation. It has been a long journey with many twists and turns and a stream of fascinating personalities who all shared a passion for the Society’s mission to further friendship and connections between Japan and the Bay Area. The history book built on earlier work to document the Society’s illustrious history, with the drafting done mainly by Board Chair Larry Greenwood with invaluable assistance from two other Board members, our informal archivist Kathleen Kimura and photo-collector extraordinaire Nobuko Saito Cleary.
