More details about the show are available at http://DefiningCourageShow.

Twenty-one years later in 2017.Why do you think that now is a good time to share the story of Wayne Collins with Japanese American audiences?A: There was (and sadly.

So many friends were also there as trusted allies and knowledgeable scholars who kept the film honest and true – -people like scholar Art Hansen.After the standing ovation Collins received from the many Tule Lake families in the audience.——————–Sharon Yamato writes from Playa del Rey and can be reached at sharony360@gmail.

we also need to face the dark side of the problems created by the pro-Japan factions at Tule Lake.while at the same time attributing their causes not to the inmates themselves but to the government that imprisoned them.

Wayne Mortimer Collins (1899-1974) (From Michi Weglyns collection.

scheduled to premiere at the Japanese American National Museum on Oct.and who lined up with only what they could carry on the northwest corner of Venice and Lincoln.

Photos courtesy Phyllis Hayashibara Articles for you@media ( min-width: 300px ){.The Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument just went through a thorough cleaning at the end of July and beginning of August.

responded committee member Suzanne Thompson.courtesy of several generous donations from Dr.