Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide

Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide

Member Preview Day: Friday, May 2, 2025
Open to the Public: Saturday, May 3 – Sunday, September 28, 2025

Morikami Museum is pleased to present, Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide, which explores the lives of more than 45,000 Japanese women who immigrated to the United States in the aftermath of World War II. This exhibit illuminates previously unknown American immigration stories and offers space to rethink how we hate, why we love, and what it means to be American. Produced by The War Bride Experience, Inc., the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

This exhibition is partially Funded by The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation and Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation