UCLA Kyodo Taiko To Perform At 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
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UCLA Kyodo Taiko, shown here during the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 28, 2012, will open the 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage
on April 27, 2013, at the Manzanar National Historic Site.
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Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee
Each year, over 1,000 people from diverse backgrounds, including students, teachers, community members, clergy and former incarcerees attend the Pilgrimage, which commemorates the unjust imprisonment of over 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in ten American concentration camps, located in the most desolate, isolated regions of the United States. Manzanar was the first of these camps to be established.
43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage/2012 Manzanar At Dusk: A Shin-Nisei Perspective
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UCLA student Yuta Ebikawa (right), shown here facilitating one of the small group discussions during the 2012 Manzanar At Dusk program, held
at Lone Pine High School, Lone Pine, California, April 28, 2012.
Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee
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by Yuta Ebikawa
This year marked the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Manzanar National Historic Site, the 43rd anniversary for the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, and the 25th anniversary of the UCLA Nikkei Student Union’s (UCLA NSU) participation in this event. We arrived at Manzanar early, like previous years, to have enough time to take a personal tour inside the Interpretive Center before the day program started at noon.
This year’s speakers were really passionate and moving, stressing the fact that the incarceration that happened about 70 years Read more of this post
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