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Theme of ‘Fighting against fear’ promotes unity between Japanese Americans and American Muslims
BY Staff | San José, CA | 2/21/11
More than 300 people packed the San Jose Buddhist Church hall on Feb. 20 to attend the 31st annual Day of Remembrance event in San Jose. This event commemorates Executive Order 9066 that was issued on Feb. 19, 1942 and which led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans in U.S. concentration camps during World War II.
Day of Remembrance, Japanese American internment, Nihonmachi Outreach Committee
Day of Remembrance features Ralph Lazo Story
BY Naomi Nakamura | San José, CA | 4/01/06
Speaking from behind a symbol of the World War II concentration camps for Japanese Americans, Steve Nagano of the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress - Los Angeles introduces the film Stand Up for Justice - The Ralph Lazo Story at the San Jose Day of Remembrance event organized by the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee.
Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress - Los Angeles, Ralph Lazo
War Hysteria, Then and Now
BY Naomi Nakamura | San Jose, CA | 6/02/02
On June 2, members of the San Jose Japanese American community met at the Yu-Ai-Kai (Japanese American Seniors' Center).
911, civil liberties, Nihonmachi Outreach Committee, Patriot Act
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