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Manzanar Commitee Lauds Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award On July 17, 2011

July 19, 2011 4 Comments

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga (center), shown here with Manzanar Committee Co-Chairs Kerry Cababa (left) and Bruce Embrey (right), received the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award on July 17, 2011 in Gardena, California.
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GARDENA, CA — At the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, 2011, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, one of the seminal figures in the Japanese American community’s fight for redress and reparations, was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.

The award is named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee who was one of the founders of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage and was the driving force behind the creation of the Manzanar National Historic Site.

But Herzig-Yoshinaga, now 87 years old, was unable to attend the event, which is held at the Manzanar National Historic Site, approximately 230 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Read more of this post

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Manzanar Committee Member Joyce Okazaki Shares Her Story On National Public Radio In Fresno

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Photo: Ansel Adams

Manzanar Committee member Joyce Okazaki, who, as a child, was one of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned in American concentration camps during World War II (Okazaki, who was then Joyce Yuki Nakamura, is pictured at left in this famous photo by Ansel Adams taken at Manzanar), appeared on Valley Public Radio (KVPR-FM 89.3; National Public Radio in California’s Central Valley) in Fresno, California to speak of her experiences behind the barbed wire at Manzanar, located in Callifornia’s Owens Valley, just over the Eastern Sierras from Fresno.

Okazaki was a guest on Quality of Life, a weekly show on KVPR. The show, entitled “Pearl Harbor Remembrance,” aired on December 7, 2010, the 69th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more of this post

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More Japanese Americans Receive Honorary Degrees From California Colleges

June 2, 2010 1 Comment

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Several campuses in the California State University system along with a number of California Community Colleges held commencement ceremonies recently in which former Japanese American students who were forced to leave their respective campuses due to their forced relocation from the West Coast and imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II received honorary degrees. Read more of this post

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Honorary Degrees Awarded At UCLA To Former Japanese American Students

May 18, 2010 2 Comments

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LOS ANGELES — On May 15, 2010, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) awarded honorary degrees to former Japanese American students who were forced to leave the University due to their forced relocation and unjust imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II.

Approximately 200 students were forced to leave the campus not long after the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. Read more of this post

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San Diego State University Awards Honorary Degrees To Former Japanese American Students

May 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

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On May 17, 2010, San Diego State University honored its former Japanese American students who were forced to leave the campus due to their imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II by awarding them honorary degrees (see California State University System To Grant Honorary Degrees To Japanese American Internees).

43 former students were identified as being eligible to receive an honorary degree from SDSU. More than twenty received the degree at the ceremony, some by family members representing relatives who had already passed away. Read more of this post

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2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 10-12

December 6, 2009 1 Comment

Back in 2002, the Manzanar National Historic Site (a unit of the National Park Service) did an oral history with former Manzanar Committee chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey, one of the founders of the Manzanar Pilgrimage and the driving force behind the preservation of Manzanar and its development into a National Historic Site.

In this twelve-part oral history, Embrey discussed his family’s life and experiences in pre-World War II Los Angeles, their time behind the barbed wire at Manzanar and much more. Read more of this post

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2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 7-9

December 6, 2009 4 Comments

2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 4-6

December 6, 2009 3 Comments

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Manzanar Commitee Lauds Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga With Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award On July 17, 2011

Manzanar Committee Member Joyce Okazaki Shares Her Story On National Public Radio In Fresno

More Japanese Americans Receive Honorary Degrees From California Colleges

Honorary Degrees Awarded At UCLA To Former Japanese American Students

San Diego State University Awards Honorary Degrees To Former Japanese American Students

2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 10-12

2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 7-9

2002 Manzanar National Historic Site Oral History: Sue Kunitomi Embrey – Parts 4-6

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