“Speaking Of Camp” Event – Photos, Video

March 13, 2013 by Leave a comment

This article was originally published on December 16, 2012. It has been updated to include video from the event.

Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II are shown here telling their
stories at Speaking Of Camp, an event held at the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Center in Los Angeles’ Little Toyko, on December 1, 2012.
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Photo: Alan Broch

LOS ANGELES — On December 1, 2012, the Friends of Manzanar sponsored Speaking Of Camp…, an event held at St. Francis Xavier Japanese Catholic Center (formerly Maryknoll/Japanese Catholic Center) in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo.

Co-sponsored by the Manzanar Committee, the event was part of an ongoing effort to capture the significance of individual stories of those who came through the World War II camp experience.

Videographers also recorded incarceree stories and memories of their days behind the barbed wire.

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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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Interactive 3D Model Could Revolutionize Real and Virtual Visitor Experience For Manzanar

July 28, 2012 by 3 Comments

Editor’s Note: All photographs and video clips below represent the status of the project detailed in the story as of the publication date. They are not intended to represent the final product. As such, they could contain errors, inaccuracies or omissions that will be addressed as work on the project continues. All images and video in this story are © 2012 CyArk. All rights reserved.

A view of the barracks at Manzanar, as it looked in July 1944, in a 3D computerized model.
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Photo courtesy CyArk

LOS ANGELES — The Manzanar National Historic Site’s virtual museum, accessible via their web site, is a treasure trove of information that can be used to learn about Manzanar through the use of text, images, video, slide shows and more.

Those who make the trek to Manzanar, located Read more of this post

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Rose Ochi To Receive 2012 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award at the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage

April 2, 2012 by 3 Comments

Rose Ochi, shown here during the
40th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, on
April 25, 2009, will receive the 2012
Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.
Photo: Gann Matsuda

LOS ANGELES — On April 2, the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee announced that Rose Ochi, a key figure in the establishment of the Manzanar National Historic Site, and long-time pro bono legal counsel for the Manzanar Committee, has been chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award.

The award, 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, will be presented at the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, scheduled for 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 28, 2012, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on US Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine and Independence, approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles.

Ochi, 72, a native of Los Angeles, was three years old when she was shipped off to Rohwer, Arkansas, one of the ten American concentration camps where over 110,000 West Coast Japanese Americans, along with their immigrant parents, were unjustly incarcerated during World War II. Read more of this post

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