Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
Once again, we’re very, very late with this, but video from the 2012 Manzanar At Dusk program, held on April 28, 2012, is now available. For those who may be unfamiliar with the Manzanar At Dusk program, or have never attended, you are really missing out. The event differs significantly from the Manzanar Pilgrimage, held... Continue Reading →
We’re very, very late with this, but video from the 43rd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, held on April 28, 2012, is now available. The 2012 Pilgrimage included a performance by UCLA Kyodo Taiko, remarks by Les Inafuku, Superintendent, Manzanar National Historic Site, and by Manzanar Committee Co-Chair Bruce Embrey. It also featured a keynote address by... Continue Reading →
On January 26, 2013, long-time Manzanar Committee, San Fernando Valley Japanese American Citizens League, and LGBT leader Tak Yamamoto was honored and remembered by friends, family, colleagues and fellow activists at an informal memorial service, held at the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center in Pacoima, California. The following is a tribute to Yamamoto... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — Over 70 years have passed since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II, with over 110,000 unjustly incarcerated in ten American concentration camps, and other confinement sites. Since that time, the most famous... Continue Reading →
This month, the Japanese American community reflects upon its past through Day of Remembrance programs, commemorating the February 19, 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which authorized the forced removal and unjust incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II. This year... Continue Reading →
PILGRIMAGES: After talking about the origins, history, and the status of the present-day Manzanar and Tule Lake Pilgrimages, the focus of an October 8, 2011 event at the Japanese American National Museum turned to the future of both pilgrimages, along with that of Japanese American community organizations. LOS ANGELES — Panelists representing the Manzanar and... Continue Reading →
PILGRIMAGES: The origins, the history, and the future of the Manzanar and Tule Lake Pilgrimages was the focus of an October 8, 2011 event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo. The following is the first of two stories covering the event. LOS ANGELES — The history and future of the... Continue Reading →
GARDENA, CA — At the 42nd Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage on April 30, 2011, Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga, one of the seminal figures in the Japanese American community’s fight for redress and reparations, was announced as the 2011 recipient of the Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award. The award is named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — On May 15, 2010, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) awarded honorary degrees to former Japanese American students who were forced to leave the University due to their forced removal and unjust imprisonment in American concentration camps during World War II. Approximately 200 students were forced to leave the campus not... Continue Reading →
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