His mission: Introduce Americans to the style of home cooking he learned growing up in Tokyo.

as a Day of Remembrance at the State Capitol.was a staging ground where over 4.

but to ensure we never repeat these injustices.000 Japanese Americans were forcibly detained before being sent to concentration camps like Rohwer and Gila River.Utah)Hachiro Yasumura (Jerome/Rohwer.

we must remember this injustice to ensure that history does not repeat itself.the mass incarceration of over 125.

Day of Remembrance is observed on or around Feb.

The medical building from that era still stands today.Karl Nobuyuki represents the energy and momentum of the 1970s Sansei in the movement to right the constitutional and emotional wrongs because of Executive Order 9066.

opening a hole in the scrimmage line so that we can help the Nikkei members of Congress score legislative touchdowns.After I accepted the appointment as the Washington representative.

Little did I know at the age of 30 that Karl had given me the opportunity to have the most rewarding and consequential job that I was to ever have in my life.Karl promised me that if I accepted the position.