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First Princess Sara Emiko Kubo.Kara: Theres this intergenerational impact.

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.and work that is being done to preserve and interpret the former site of the Crystal City prison camp.

-born children who were incarcerated alongside persons of Japanese heritage in Texas.Many were repatriated against their will to countries where their Latin American-born children had never before visited.

arrested under the AEA in Detroit and imprisoned at Ellis Island until provisions were made for their detention in Crystal City.Crystal City held more than 4.