Im happy to share that our theme for 2025 is ‘Kansha.

Zenshuji Buddhist Temple; Bishop Yuju Matsumoto.Muen-to is to honor those who didnt have families locally.

to offer prayers to late family and loved ones.at a grave marker dedicated to those who have died but are unknown or have no family to mourn them.set in a corner of the cemetery that boasts row after row of headstones bearing Japanese names.

used the occasion to explain how meaningful the annual observance is for him.A scout from Koyasan Troop 479 plays Taps.

Evergreen was one of the only cemeteries that would accept Japanese people before the war.

helping to move flower arrangements and providing the playing of Taps.At the direction of the Department of the Interior.

memorials and other sites for so-called partisan ideology.the NPS oversees sites related to slavery and segregation.

This order also applies to the Smithsonian Institution.The museum reiterates that the widespread dismantling of federal agencies that support our work and the attempts at the wholesale erasure of history will not help us achieve a more just America.