LOS ANGELES — The incarceration experience of Japanese Americans during World War II, based on racial hatred, and its similarity to the modern day anti-Muslim animosity in America, was a key topic of discussion during the 2016 Day of Remembrance, held Feb. 20 at the Japanese American National Museum. The Japanese American community’s annual Day […]
Yolo County exhibit sheds light on cross-cultural injustices
February 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
WOODLAND, Calif. — The Woodland Community College Ethnic Studies program, in collaboration with the Yolo County Archives and Records Center, the Art Appreciation Class, the Holland Doshi Kai of Clarksburg and several local community members, is hosting its first exhibit on Yolo County Japanese American history. The “Yolo Japanese American Community Exhibit,” which will be […]
RABBIT RAMBLINGS: Will Day of Remembrance events disappear?
April 2, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Another Day of Remembrance has come and gone and another commemoration was presented in San Francisco’s J-Town, an observance of that Day of Infamy and the day President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This year’s theme, “Out of the Shadows of Infamy: Resistance Behind Barbed Wire,” was especially welcome, as it highlighted a subject […]
SAN JOSE’S DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: A new generation of activists
March 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE — The 35th annual Day of Remembrance, held at the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin Feb. 12 in the city’s Japantown, marked the infamous day in 1942 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which led to the illegal incarceration of some 120,000 Nikkei during World War II, drastically altering the […]
Los Angeles DOR discusses JA-black connections in fighting injustice
March 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES — The 2015 Day of Remembrance program, held Feb. 21 at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo before an audience of 250, explored the interconnection of the Nikkei and black communities in their battles against racism and injustice. Serving as co-emcees were Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks, a professor in Asian Pacific […]
SILENCED NO MORE: 2015 Bay Area Day of Remembrance
March 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Bay Area Day of Remembrance Consortium presented its 36th annual Day of Remembrance Feb. 22 at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas in San Francisco’s Japantown. The program recalls the injustices more than 120,000 Nikkei faced following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. Emily Murase, president of the San […]
Day of Remembrance 2015 events
February 5, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Day of Remembrance marks the 73rd anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 by Franklin D. Roosevelt which led to the mass incarceration. The Day of Remembrance commemorates the injustices, race prejudice, hardships of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II. Editor’s Note: This is not a […]
Nikkei must speak out against police brutality
January 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The other day, I received a petition in an e-mail asking me to tell PepsiCo, which makes Doritos,to stop buying the palm oil it uses to make the chips. “That sound when you bite down on Doritos … is the sound of rainforests being ‘crunched’ … for massive palm oil plantations ….” It seems that […]
San Jose Day of Remembrance focuses on civil liberties and war
March 6, 2014 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE — More than 200 people attended the 34th annual “Day of Remembrance” event, presented by the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, Feb. 16 at the San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin. The event, titled “Civil Liberties and War,” commemorated the signing of Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which led to the incarceration of some […]
NY DOR on the 75th anniversary of EO9066: Never again!
Editor’s Note: The following is a speech made at the 2017 New York Day of Remembrance. Imagine your family immigrated to this country. (That would include most of us). And please imagine that your country of origin is at conflict with the United States. You are torn, because you hate violence. In fact it may […]