Official Web site of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969.
LONE PINE, CA AND LOS ANGELES — Thirteen years ago, a group of about forty people, primarily college students, gathered for an evening program at a campground just west of Independence, California, about six miles north of the Manzanar National Historic Site. That evening, they talked about Manzanar and the Japanese American Internment experience, along... Continue Reading →
by Jaymie Takeshita Dear Grandma, Every time I talk to you on the phone, I tell you about all the things I do with the UCLA Nikkei Student Union (NSU), right? I have yet another NSU story for you. Yesterday, a bunch of us from UCLA went on the 41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. My friends... Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES — The Manzanar Committee extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Bob Uyeyama, 75, of Elk Grove, California, who passed away on April 24, 2010, while attending the Florin Japanese American Citizens League’s (JACL) trip to the 41st Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. Uyeyama, who was imprisoned at the Rohwer and Jerome concentration camps... Continue Reading →
The following was originally published by the Office of University Communications, California State University, Fresno. It is reprinted here with permission. Original story: Honorary Degree to Fresno State Alumnus Interned In WW II. SELMA, CA — John Hiroshi Otomo, a San Joaquin Valley native, was awarded an honorary bachelor’s degree from California State University, Fresno... Continue Reading →
PILGRIMAGE: Bus transportation from Los Angeles still available. LOS ANGELES — Ron Wakabayashi, Regional Director, United States Department of Justice Community Relations Service, will be the keynote speaker at the 40th Manzanar Pilgrimage, sponsored by the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, scheduled for noon PDT on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the Manzanar National Historic Site,... Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: We’re more than a little late with this, we know, but we wanted to get this out because it is one of the unknown stories from Manzanar...the fact that research was done behind the barbed wire by Japanese American scientists who, despite being unjustly incaracerated by their own government, made positive contributions to... Continue Reading →
For the past two years, the Florin chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League has brought a diverse group of people to the Manzanar Pilgrimage, the trip being coordinated by Andy Noguchi. After they returned home, Andy, his daughter Annie Kim Noguchi, former Manzanar prisoner Carol Hironaka, and Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Ranger Richard... Continue Reading →
Manzanar Committee 