the last of three Japantowns in California.

where 74 blocks of barracks were located.we could see acres of sun-dried grasses during a hot and arid Northern California summer.

100-plus-acre site where the camp originally sat.and the word survivor to the incarcerated — the number of whom diminishes with each passing year.Those who refused to swear unconditional loyalty were transferred to Tule.

This history is still being reckoned with.most hailing from the West Coast.

This is just one of the strange rhetorical situations I find myself in as a direct descendant of a Japanese American concentration camp survivor.

this is one of the main places Japanese American survivors and descendants want and need to visit.A shakuhachi performance by Greg Matsuura and koto performance by Toshiko Okawa were also well received.

with the passage of time and the instantaneous availability of information via the Internet.Even speaking Japanese is difficult for me.

when he was a member of the basketball team at his high school in Nara Prefecture.I hope that Mie Kenjinkai will continue to develop in the future by learning about the footsteps of our predecessors and firmly engraving our roots.