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National Park Service Awards $3 Million For 2010 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants

May 20, 2010 — Gann Matsuda

The following is a press release from the National Park Service.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 13, 2010
Contact: Gerry Gaumer (202) 208-6843
Kara Miyagishima (303) 969-2885

Office of Communications and Public Affairs
News Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded 23 grants totaling: $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret historic locations where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.

In the program’s second year, the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants will help fund projects in a dozen states, including the restoration of a historic railroad depot in Arkansas that will house an exhibit about that state’s two confinement sites, and an educational outreach program to engage youth in preserving confinement sites through art, conversation, and community service. Read the rest of this entry »

Words Can Lie Or Clarify Criticizes Euphemistic Language Used To Describe WWII Camps Used To Imprison Japanese Americans

March 4, 2010 — Gann Matsuda

Aiko Herzig Yoshinaga
Photo: Discover Nikkei

Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, was seventeen years old when she was imprisoned at Manzanar and later, at Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas.

After camp, she became a community and political activist, but is best-known for poring over tons of documents in the National Archives, discovering evidence that the United States Government perjured itself before the United States Supreme Court in the 1944 cases Korematsu v. United States, Hirabayashi v. United States, and Yasui v. United States which challenged the constitutionality of the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese American Confinement Sites Program Announces 2009 Grant Awards

July 25, 2009 — Gann Matsuda

The following is a press release from the National Park Service.

Contact:
Kara Miyagishima
National Park Service
Intermountain Region
12795 W. Alameda Pkwy.
P.O. Box 25287
Denver, Colorado 80225
(303) 969-2885

July 24, 2009

DENVER — The National Park Service announces the awarding of nineteen new grants totaling $960,000 to help preserve and interpret many of the historic locations, mostly in the western United States, where more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. Read the rest of this entry »