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PSWD JACL Regional Director Craig Ishii Speaks at 39th Annual Manzanar...
Editor’s Note: The following is the text of a speech by Craig Ishii, Regional Director, Pacific Southwest District, Japanese American Citizens League, at the 39th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April...
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Event Highlights WWII Guayule Rubber Project At Manzanar
Are you curious about the Guayule Rubber Project at Manzanar? Would you like to know more? The Greater Los Angeles Singles chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League is sponsoring an event...
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Pacific Southwest District JACL and NCRR Announce Bridging Communities Program
The following is from a press release by the Japanese American Citizens League Pacific Southwest District and Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress. LOS ANGELES — On January 8, the Japanese American...
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Rubber For The US War Effort: The Manzanar Guayule Project
Editor’s Note: We’re more than a little late with this, we know, but we wanted to get this out because it is one of the unknown stories from Manzanar…the fact that research was done behind the barbed...
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Ron Wakabayashi To Keynote 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage
PILGRIMAGE: Bus transportation from Los Angeles still available. LOS ANGELES — Ron Wakabayashi, Regional Director, United States Department of Justice Community Relations Service, will be the keynote...
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Los Angeles’ 2010 Day of Remembrance Scheduled For February 20
The following is a press release from the National Coalition for Civil Rights and Redress. Original story: DOR Press Release, Jan. 10. 2010. Korematsu v. United States is the theme of the 2010 Day of...
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Honorary Degree To Fresno State Alumnus Interned In WW II
The following was originally published by the Office of University Communications, California State University, Fresno. It is reprinted here with permission. Original story: Honorary Degree to Fresno...
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41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage: A Letter To Obaa-chan
by Jaymie Takeshita Dear Grandma, Every time I talk to you on the phone, I tell you about all the things I do with the UCLA Nikkei Student Union (NSU), right? I have yet another NSU story for you....
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National Park Service Awards $3 Million For 2010 Japanese American...
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded 23 grants totaling: $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret historic...
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Connections And Common Bonds Are Key At Manzanar At Dusk Program
LONE PINE, CA AND LOS ANGELES — Thirteen years ago, a group of about forty people, primarily college students, gathered for an evening program at a campground just west of Independence, California,...
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Mako Nakagawa To Keynote 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
PILGRIMAGE: Bus Transportation Available From Los Angeles LOS ANGELES — Mako Nakagawa, the primary author of the Power of Words resolution, passed in July 2010 by the National Council of the Japanese...
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Manzanar Hosts Special Events April 29 – May 1 For Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. Manzanar National Historic Site invites the public to participate in a weekend of special activities surrounding the Manzanar...
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2011 Minidoka Pilgrimage To Be Held, June 30 – July 3, 2011 – Register Now
The folllowing is a press release from the Friends of Minidoka. SEATTLE, WA — Close to 70 years ago, during World War II, almost 13,000 people of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were American citizens,...
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Mako Nakagawa Delivers Keynote Address At 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
The following is the text of the keynote address delivered at the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, 2011, by Mako Nakagawa. Good afternoon. I am very pleased to be able to join you on this...
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Yosh Kuromiya: Random Thoughts On Being Nisei During World War II
Born in Sierra Madre, California in April 1923, Yosh Kuromiya and his family moved to Monrovia, where he attended grammar school, junior high and high school. He was attending Pasadena Junior College...
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Euphemistic Terms Used To Describe WWII Incarceration Of Japanese Americans...
by Joyce OkazakiLOS ANGELES — Mako Nakagawa of Seattle, the primary author of the Power Of Words resolution that called for use of accurate, non-euphemistic language to be used to describe the wartime...
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Cast in Bronze: Terminology Symposium in San Francisco, October 22, 2011
By Soji Kashiwagi The main reason for holding a day-long symposium on terminology and the use of U.S. government euphemisms during World War II was not, according to event organizers, to take on the...
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2012 Day of Remembrance In Los Angeles: 70 Years After E.O. 9066: Defending...
The following is a press release from Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, the Pacific Southwest District of the Japanese American Citizens League, the Japanese American National Museum, and the...
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Revisiting Camp and Community: A Consideration of Its Relevance for the 2012...
Dr. Arthur A. Hansen, Professor Emeritus of History and Asian American Studies, California State University, Fullerton, was the guest lecturer at the Manzanar National Historic Site, February 18-19,...
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Manzanar Committee Urges Japanese American Citizens League To Ratify Power Of...
LOS ANGELES — On May 27, the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee announced that it has endorsed the Power of Words Draft Handbook that is expected to be voted on at the National Japanese American...
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