WW II Club, 2019- ongoing project
World War II Club is the satire storytelling about the war system that produces the tragedies through the history of Japanese internment camps at the beginning of WW II. This series approach to the issue of immigration and racism with the new ideas for the characters to break the stereotype.
Beautiful Sky Golf Course is the first work of this series in which Tsutaja focused on the case of the Fort Missoula Alien Detention Camp, Missoula, MT. In this Alien Detention Camps, only Issei (Japanese immigrants, the first generation who were not allowed to get U.S. citizenship) were detained without their wife and children. They were the ones who immigrated to the U.S. before 1924 when the U.S. banned the Japanese immigration, had lived for 30 or 40 years in the U.S., worked hard, raised family, succeeded to their business, and became the influential community leaders. They had been listed on the FBI's ABC list, arrested right after Pearl Harbor and transported to the Fort Missoula. The purpose of the U.S. government with this camp was to find "the dangerous alien enemies" through the Loyalty Hearings. Golf ball characters were born from the facts in which Japanese internees made a handmade golf course for themselves during waiting for their judgement. Tsutaja's idea for the character created with the combination of "Japanese" and "golf ball" has never existed in the Western history.
World War II Club is the satire storytelling about the war system that produces the tragedies through the history of Japanese internment camps at the beginning of WW II. This series approach to the issue of immigration and racism with the new ideas for the characters to break the stereotype.
Beautiful Sky Golf Course is the first work of this series in which Tsutaja focused on the case of the Fort Missoula Alien Detention Camp, Missoula, MT. In this Alien Detention Camps, only Issei (Japanese immigrants, the first generation who were not allowed to get U.S. citizenship) were detained without their wife and children. They were the ones who immigrated to the U.S. before 1924 when the U.S. banned the Japanese immigration, had lived for 30 or 40 years in the U.S., worked hard, raised family, succeeded to their business, and became the influential community leaders. They had been listed on the FBI's ABC list, arrested right after Pearl Harbor and transported to the Fort Missoula. The purpose of the U.S. government with this camp was to find "the dangerous alien enemies" through the Loyalty Hearings. Golf ball characters were born from the facts in which Japanese internees made a handmade golf course for themselves during waiting for their judgement. Tsutaja's idea for the character created with the combination of "Japanese" and "golf ball" has never existed in the Western history.
Beautiful Sky Golf Course
2019 
Target
2019 |
Beautiful Sky Golf Course (video)
2019 |
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