My office worked with the Department of Cultural Affairs to facilitate a grassroots process to select a local artist.

The film boasts an appearance from former President (and Arkansas native) Bill Clinton.Among the first signers were George and Brad Takei.

the JACL Midwest District Council took up the project of restoring the existing monuments at the site of the former Rohwer Relocation Center.Norman Ishimoto had attendees sign this thank you card for Rosalie Santine Gould.In the wake of her husbands death in 1965.

she also became acquainted with Mabel Rose Jamison Vogel.he found another way to acknowledge her efforts.

Schiffer dedicates a portion of the film to her mothers own work to restore Rohwer camp and lobby the National Park Service to declare it a National Historic Site.

Ishimoto had visited the camp sites before in 1989.Archbishop Imagawa delivered a message from Abbot Shindo Hasebe of Koyasan Kongo Buji Head Temple.

Rafu Staff WriterThe Koyasan Beikoku Betsuin.and he then dedicated an additional four years to translating it into Chinese.

and kado (flower arranging) workshops conducted by teachers from Japan.especially during World War II and the post-war period.