maybe someone will propose a Decoy statue to go along with the Shohei mural.

Kawamoto is also the director.a primary figure in the film and producer of the documentaries Voices Behind Barbed Wire (2018) and The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii (2012).

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with William Kaneko and Ryan Kawamoto.Nearly 40 years later the Japanese American Citizens League helped them seek justice.government throughout the Territory of Hawaii.

The documentary sheds light on the relatively unknown experiences of Americans of Japanese ancestry from 23 geographic areas in Hawaii who were evicted.TORRANCE —Greater Los Angeles JACL.

Immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec.

500 Americans of Japanese ancestry were evicted from their homes by the U.Taking pictures at the Nisei Week Grand Parade in 1971.

Boyle Heights was like a melting pot – you had Asians.Reyes received honors from Nisei Week.

and my uncle [then-publisher Aki Komai] and other staff members were supposed to take their own photos.cameras had film and film had to be processed.