Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next couple of months, college students who participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program will share their thoughts here on our web site about their experiences in the two-day, intensive, immersive, place-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
2022-23 Katari Program: A Story of Growth and Remembrance
Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next couple of months, college students who participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program will share their thoughts here on our web site about their experiences in the two-day, intensive, immersive, place-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
2022-23 Katari Program: Proud and Empowered
Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next couple of months, college students who participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program will share their thoughts here on our web site about their experiences in the two-day, intensive, immersive, place-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
2022-23 Katari Program: Personal Connections to Japanese American WWII Incarceration Not A Prerequisite
Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next couple of months, college students who participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program will share their thoughts here on our web site about their experiences in the two-day, intensive, immersive, place-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
2022-23 Katari Program: A Weekend of Remembrance and Inspiration
Editor’s Note: Over the course of the next couple of months, college students who participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program will share their thoughts here on our web site about their experiences in the two-day, intensive, immersive, place-based learning experience about the unjust incarceration of Japanese/Japanese Americans during World War... Continue Reading →
2022-23 Katari Program – In Photos
During the November 12-13, 2022 weekend, 13 college students from six different Nikkei Student Unions participated in our annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive youth educational program. A joint program of the Manzanar Committee and the National Park Service staff at the Manzanar National Historic Site, Katari, which means “to tell stories” in Japanese,... Continue Reading →
Katari Program to Return to Manzanar in November 2022
LOS ANGELES — On October 18, the Manzanar Committee announced that their annual Katari: Keeping Japanese American Stories Alive program for college students, a partnership with the National Park Service staff at Manzanar National Historic Site, will return to a live, in-person program in November 2022, conditions permitting, after being forced to switch to an... Continue Reading →
Volunteers Needed for Preservation Work at Manzanar’s Children’s Village Site
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. The public is cordially invited to join Manzanar National Historic Site and others over Labor Day Weekend (September 2-6) in preserving Manzanar’s Children’s Village, the only World War II Japanese American incarceration camp orphanage. We will be joined by former Manzanar orphans Karyl Matsumoto... Continue Reading →
Community Members Invited to Join Manzanar Volunteer Weekend, July 9-10, 2022
The following is a press release from the National Park Service. The National Park Service will hpst a Volunteer Work Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, July 9-10, 2022, from 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the Manzanar National Historic Site. Everyone is invited to join the Manzanar staff for an outdoor work project. The volunteer... Continue Reading →