Topaz
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Events honor James Wakasa, inmate who was killed at Topaz, but questions remain about future of his memorial
June 8, 2023 by Chizu Omori, Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: Chizu Omori is a Wakasa Memorial Committee member. James Hatsuaki Wakasa probably would have been astonished by the recognition and appreciation events attendees bestowed upon him in April […] READ MORE
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Wakasa remembered in Utah, 80 years after fatal shot in concentration camp
May 11, 2023 by Kenji G. Taguma, Nichi Bei News
TOPAZ, Utah — A set of solemn and respectful ceremonies permeated through the Central Utah breeze April 22 under dotted clouds over the former Topaz concentration camp and the […] READ MORE
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Topaz survivors, descendants rankled by Topaz Museum Board’s outreach efforts
August 4, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
While the Topaz Museum board and its supporters would love nothing more than to move forward after a haphazard excavation of what some consider one of the most significant […] READ MORE
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Wakasa Committee asks for professional excavation where monument was unearthed
May 12, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
The Wakasa Memorial Committee has asked the Topaz Museum Board to carry out a professionally-led community archaeology excavation of the site where the Wakasa monument was unearthed by the museum […] READ MORE
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Topaz Museum seeks public input to guide preservation and future of Wakasa Monument
May 12, 2022 by Nichi Bei News
DELTA, Utah — The Topaz Museum Board announces the launch of the Topaz Community Outreach Project, as part of its effort to preserve and interpret a recently discovered stone monument, […] READ MORE
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Report from Topaz
December 9, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
On November 30 and December 1, 2021, an expert National Park Service team was in Delta, Utah at the invitation of the Topaz Museum to conduct a condition evaluation of the […] READ MORE
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Love and compassion
December 9, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
As I read about the circumstances about the unearthing of the Wakasa monument, I am saddened by some of the inflammatory language of the past four months surrounding the event […] READ MORE
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Wakasa monument unearthing a ‘slap in the face’
September 16, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
To All Concerned, Despite the personal request of a decades long financial supporter of the Topaz Museum to fund a ceremonious, archivally professional excavation of the long buried stone monument, Jane […] READ MORE
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Wakasa Memorial Committee ‘stunned’ by Topaz Museum Board’s ‘crude and unprofessional’ unearthing of monument
September 16, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Sept. 7, 2021 Dear Topaz Museum Board President Jane Beckwith and Board Members Lance Atkinson, Scott Bassett, Lorelei Draper, Rick Okabe, Hisashi Bill Sugaya, and Teresa Thompson: The U.S. Department […] READ MORE
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LETTERS: JA ‘offended’ by ‘desecration’ of James Wakasa’s ‘final resting place’
September 2, 2021 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: The following letter was sent in response to the column entitled “The ‘desecration of sacred ground’ at Topaz” that appeared in the Aug. 19, 2021 issue of the […] READ MORE
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