The event also featured opening remarks from Ichiro Hirosawa.

some of which are currently now county fairgrounds.Former detainees June Aochi Berk and Bacon Sakatani will offer insights into their detention at Santa Anita and Pomona.

who were the websites content creators.along with filmmaker Sharon Yamato and New York photographer Stan Honda.The program will feature a clip from an upcoming film by JANMs Evan Kodani on former detainee Berk.

with funding for the film made possible by the Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation.some conducted at the current site and others provided by Denshos oral history collection.

The 15 euphemistically named assembly centers and single Owens Valley reception center operated by the U.

Armys Western Civil Control Administration provided immediate.Parking (cash only) is $7 per car.

com/oaapicnicvolunteer25 (service hours available for students).The gatherings were pioneered by early Okinawan immigrants in the 1930s to build fellowship and to joyously partake in their shared cultural heritage.

The OAA would like to say ippee nifee deebiru (thank you very much) to this years Gold Level sponsors.at Whittier Narrows Recreation Area in South El Monte.