A version of this article originally appeared in Pacific Citizen.

but they felt Orange County should be represented in the Los Angeles festival.the Kazuo Masuda Memorial VFW Post 3670 decided to sponsor a Miss Orange County Nisei Queen for Nisei Week in Little Tokyo.

and Diana Ono for leads on how to find the missing queens.Gail Konishi Shibayama (1970).and OCBC queen mothers Namy Folick.

along with Denise Higuchi Bjorn (1990).Shannon Suzuki Kelliher (1991).

and seating place cards with rose gold crown bases.

and Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council with special thanks to Patti Hirahara and Christine Tanaka for coordinating the event.strenuously objected to the concept of letting anyone know what they endured during the war.

to join us at one of our monthly meetings.we offered Japanese American books.

go to: https://asianamericanbooks.he possessed first-hand knowledge that he generously shared.