The local canneries and fishing boats played a vital role in the American fishing industry.

Karen Bass praised Watanabe as she accepted AADAPs inaugural Mike Watanabe Leadership Award.His humilityduring the transition of AADAP’s leadership cemented his legacy! — Louis Lewis.

It wasnt just the years of service.and support have made AADAP what it is today.greets everyone as family and practices it.

thank you for all the support youve provided in the 18 years of work I had under your leadership.and the importance of AADAP’s long-standing.

He and I bumped heads from time to time.

advocated for what is right and just.Takashi Hoshizaki was one of 63 members of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee who refused induction into the military during World War II.

military to remove persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and set into motion their incarceration into concentration camps during World War II.about those who resisted their circumstances and sought to exercise their rights as Americans.

and the forthcoming documentary Snapshots of Confinement have featured her work.he kept a diary that was later translated and turned into a book.