Manzanar At Dusk 2012 – VIDEO

February 12, 2013 by Leave a comment

Cyndi Tando (center) and Kosuke Kudo (right), are shown here during one
of the small group discussions at the 2012 Manzanar At Dusk program,
April 28, 2012, at Lone Pine High School, Lone Pine, California.
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Photo: Gann Matsuda

Once again, we’re very, very late with this, but video from the 2012 Manzanar At Dusk program, held on April 28, 2012, is now available.

For those who may be unfamiliar with the Manzanar At Dusk program, or have never attended, you are really missing out. The event differs significantly from the Manzanar Pilgrimage, held earlier in the day, in that this event is interactive in nature. Participants from all ages and ethnic backgrounds get to hear stories from those who were unjustly incarcerated in one of the ten American concentration camps, or other confinement sites, during World War II. In small discussion groups, participants also talk about the lessons that can be learned from the Japanese American Incarceration experience, and how they might apply to what’s going on today.

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43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage – VIDEO

February 11, 2013 by Leave a comment

Banners representing each of the ten American concentration camps where Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated during World War II are shown
here during the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 28, 2012, at the
Manzanar National Historic Site, in Calfornia’s Owens Valley.
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Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee

We’re very, very late with this, but video from the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, held on April 28, 2012, is now available.

The 2012 Pilgrimage included a performance by UCLA Kyodo Taiko, remarks by Les Inafuku, Superintendent, Manzanar National Historic Site, and by Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey. It also featured a keynote address by Mitchell T. Maki, author of Achieving The Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress, remarks by Manzanar Committee member Pat Sakamoto, the presentation of the 2012 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award to Rose Ochi, and musical performances by Mary Kageyama Nomura, the Songbird of Manzanar, and by Ken Koshio, Nancy Gohata, Darrell Kunitomi and Keith Uchima.

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Family, Friends, Community Come Together To Remember and Honor Tak Yamamoto – VIDEO

February 5, 2013 by Leave a comment

On January 26, 2013, long-time Manzanar Committee, San Fernando Valley Japanese American Citizens League, and LGBT leader Tak Yamamoto was honored and remembered by friends, family, colleagues and fellow activists at an informal memorial service, held at the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center in Pacoima, California.

The following is a tribute to Yamamoto by Alisa Lynch, Chief of Interpretation, Manzanar National Historic Site, a portion of which was read as part of the program.

Video of the event, and a handful of photographs from the event can be viewed below.

Long-time Manzanar Committee leader Tak Yamamoto (second from left), shown here receiving the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award at the 40th Annual
Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 25, 2009, died on November 9, 2012.
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Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee

According to a War Relocation Authority roster, on May 17, 1942, a boy tagged with family number 24119 arrived in the searing hot desert of Arizona. Just two days before his fourth birthday, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, ultimately allowing the U.S. Army to round up and confine 120,313 Japanese Americans based solely on their ancestry. The boy was like two-thirds of all of the people in the camps: a child and an American Citizen.

His family’s “pre-evacuation city” was listed as Westminster, California. His parents, Tokuichi and Kotoyo Yamamoto Read more of this post

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Colors of Confinement Showcases Unique, Color Photos Of Japanese American Incarceration

September 26, 2012 by 1 Comment

Photo courtesy University of North Carolina Press
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LOS ANGELES — Over 70 years have passed since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II, with over 110,000 unjustly incarcerated in ten American concentration camps, and other confinement sites.

Since that time, the most famous photographs of the Japanese American incarceration experience are attributed to names such as Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake, who was incarcerated at the Manzanar concentration camp in California’s Owens Valley.

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