In a historic setting befitting JANM’s dedication to honoring history while embracing the future, the museum leadership welcomed members, sponsors, and friends to Vibiana, site of the annual benefit gala on Saturday night.
LOS ANGELES (AP) Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names.
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The American West Center at the University of Utah hosted a three-day symposium about the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The event featured historians, artists and scholars sharing their perspectives on the history and memory of the camps. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that incarcerated.
Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on U.S. soil during World War II are being commemorated at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.