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May 1, 2025
In 2023-24, Greensboro History Museum Curator of Collections Ayla Amon worked to identify and return items in the museum that had been taken from Japanese soldiers during World War II. The nonprofit Obon Society is working to identify families connected with the items, which include photographs, dog tags, and yosegaki hinomaru, or a “good luck flags,” silk pennants Japanese soldiers carried with wishes from their families and communities.
Read about the repatriation efforts in this The Assembly story from June 2024.
Yosegaki hinomaru formerly in the museum collection (Photo courtesy Sayaka Matsuoka/Triad City Beat)
Watch a January 2024 History Lunch Break episode from the museum dedicated to Collections and Conflict.
Five UNC Greensboro undergraduates spent their spring 2025 semester inventorying buttons and badges in museum collections. A sampling of what they found is on view in the museum's Connection Point through fall 2025.
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