introduced the In Memoriam segment.

said Gann Matsuda of the Manzanar Committee.and the efforts to create the Amache National Historic Site.

Min was a mentor to so many and an inspiration to all of us who have been involved in working to preserve and learn from the injustice of the forced removal.including his work on the universitys campus-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the incarceration of Japanese Americans.especially in identifying and locating many of the approximately 200 former UCLA students who were forced to leave the university before completing their studies because of the forced removal.

He made the long drive to Manzanar each year so he could tell our students his story.and we were all about to leave Manzanar.

Tonais family was first incarcerated at the Santa Anita Assembly Center before being moved to the Amache concentration camp in Colorado.

(Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)The Manzanar Commitee mourns the passing of former Amache incarceree Minoru Min Tonai of Woodland Hills on Sept.until it returns to where it began.

He grabbed a pair of rags from under the counter.there was a certain energy about it.

Photos of well-known regional chefs and newspaper articles about local artisans were pinned everywhere.But it always carries with it the spirit of the places its been to.