announced April 9 a curated slate of content celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.

delivered a lecture on the history of the SCGF and the significance of senryu composed by Japanese American gardeners.We have to wait until we can secure it more firmly and have more people on staff to oversee.

contact SCGF at (213) 628-1595.Seiryu-en is currently closed to the public.and the project was funded by SCGF member and community donations.

and SCGF President Brian Yamasaki.The event began with a powerful drum performance by Kishin Taiko.

Vice President Masao Morisaku (shigin name Kokuyu Morisaku) delivered a shigin recital of his original composition.

the SCGF launched the Japanese Garden Preservation Society.The next generation deserves to know our histories.

Hoshizaki credited writer Frank Chin with researching and writing about the resisters.are getting disappeared again … So we know that the camps are not a relic at the past.

who had refused to serve in the military until their civil rights were restored.remembers the terror that morning as a 9-year-old girl wondering if she would ever see her father again.