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Genealogical Societies

Nikkei Genealogical Society of America.
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.facebook.com/nikkeigen/

The Southern California Nikkei Genealogy Society
Address:
417 Irving Drive
Burbank, CA
91504-2408
Telephone: 1-818-8430-7247
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/affiliates/nikkei.html

Ancestry.com has Japan Message Boards:

Link: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.asia.japan.okinawa/mb.ashx

Rootsweb also has a Japan Mailing List;

Link: https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/

Historical Societies

National Japanese American Historical Society
Address:
1684 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
Telephone: 1-415-921-5007
Website: https://www.njahs.org/

Japan Society of Manhattan
Address:
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017
Telephone: 1-212-832-1155
Website: https://www.japansociety.org/

Other Societies

The Anthropological Society of Nippon
Address:
Shimodachiuri Ogawa Higashi
Nishioji-cho 146, Kamigyo-ku
Kyoto, 602-8048, Japan
Telephone: +81-(0)75-415-3661
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://anthropology.jp/english/about/history.html