and as we proceeded south through the cities of Niland.

for his work improving the status of the Japanese American community and promoting mutual understanding between Japan and the United States.Shigeo Yamada for her leadership in the Washington.

Higuchi was also the president of the D.Other prominent recipients include the late Sen.The sole surviving resister of the military draft during his incarceration at Heart Mountain.

Daniel Inouye and actor-director Clint Eastwood.Takashi Hoshizaki and Shirley Ann Higuchi.

He is the fifth former Heart Mountain incarceree to receive the Order of the Rising Sun.

000 Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated in Wyoming from 1942 through 1945.which dates back to the 1900s.

and Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council (1989-2025).VFW Queen Gwen Okumura Martino (1969); Deputy Consul General Naoko Kamitani; VFW Queen Dianne Kubota Hamano (1961); charter VFW Youth Group member Linda Honda; Orange County Sports Association President and OCNCC Representative Marsha Hamamoto; reunion emcee and reigning Miss Orange County JA Queen Casey Kuramoto.

There was a gap of three years with Orange County no longer being represented.Special guests included Commander James Nakamura of Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670; Norio Uyematsu.