members of the Los Angeles City Council.

but also the cultural aspect and sharing that with the surrounding community.Rafu: This is a great segway into what Tamlyn Tomita said in the film regarding the evolution of the Nisei Week Queen and Court Program over the years.

having the community come back from those two really significant.I think the only times that they didn’t have the festival was during World War II and then the COVID-19 pandemic.Photo credit: Joann Shin CordeiroKara Chu.

My sister and other princesses are figures in the community.and the court program began in 1935.

who was interviewed for their short film.

but I know how much it means to my sister.a volunteer-run non-profit operated by Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian survivors and descendants of the World War II incarceration.

The third survivor on the panel is Trudy Werner.but ICE personnel are profiling non-white people for possible detention.

and Italian ancestry who were kidnapped and sent to the U.For more information about the 2025 pilgrimage.