or in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania.

was also a huge success with more than 300 participants.the good ones – their silence led to the devastating injustice against Japanese American communities.

Embrey highlighted the parallels between nativist attacks on the Nikkei community in 1942 that stripped Japanese and Japanese Americans of their democratic rights and freedoms with the current vitriol against communities based on their race.have also underscored how fragile American democracy is.We can walk in the footsteps of Black leaders who supported Japanese American reparations.

lets remember each time America has owned up to its wrongs.So lets not be complicit with centuries-long unacknowledged and continuing wrongs.

lets take part in making history instead of being its bystanders.

As with our struggle for justice.There will be special messages from the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Bishop Yuju Matsumoto from Koyasan Buddhist Temple.

This event will be emceed by ASA Interim Co-Presidents Howard Kakita and Dr.ASA is a nonprofit organizations that represents over 250 members from Hawaii and Los Angeles who have witnessed atrocities that can not be imagined.

Participants in last years Hiroshima-Nagasaki commemoration at Koyasan made incense offerings.who is also a photographer who has been documenting and preserving the stories from atomic bomb survivors for the benefit of future generations.