Courtesy of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

Meet Me at Higo is an American story inspired by the Sanzo Murakami family and their ownership of the Higo 10 Cents Store/Higo Variety Store in Seattle, Washington. Currently located at 604 South Jackson in what was called Nihonmachi or Japantown, Sanzo and Matsuyo Murakami, who emigrated from Japan to find a better life for their family and children, opened the store when being Japanese and things Japanese were not cache among the mainstream.

Through personal photos and stories, this exhibition traces the struggles of the Japanese through important historical times: immigration; the Great Depression; pre-war anti-Japanese agitation; Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor; the declaration of World War II; the imprisonment of Seattle’s Japanese Americans in concentration camps; the resettlement of Japanese Americans after the war; and the decline of Nihonmachi. The Higo stories serve as a touchstone to the past, a reminder for future Japanese generations about their roots, place in society, legacy and relationship to Japan.

- Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience