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January 2022 Issue 2 |
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2022 Day of Remembrance Film Trailers |
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Eiko Yamaichi
Remembrance
In this
short
trailer for the 2022 San Jose Day of
Remembrance program, Eiko Yamaichi
talks about her journey from the
Jerome, Arkansas camp to the nearby Rohwer,
Arkansas camp. She is distraught when she
witnesses the institutionalized racial
segregation directed against African
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Aggie Idemoto Remembrance
This
short
trailer for the 2022 San Jose Day of
Remembrance spotlights Aggie Idemoto, past
president of the
Japanese
American Museum of San Jose. Aggie was
incarcerated as a toddler in Poston, Arizona.
Aggie still keeps an artifact from the camp
on her coffee table as a memory keepsake of
her father and of Poston. |
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The 42nd Annual San Jose Day
of Remembrance program will be held
virtually on Saturday, February 19 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Pacific Time). The event falls on the 80th
anniversary of the
signing of Executive Order 9066 which led to the
World War II incarceration of more than 120,000
people of Japanese descent, two-thirds of whom were
American citizens.
The theme for
this virtual program is Overcoming Hate
and Fear: The 80th Anniversary of E.O 9066.
Over the past two plus years, many communities have had
to deal with multiple challenges including the
deadly pandemic, economic, educational and
personal hardship, intense political division,
and physical and emotional isolation. During these
tumultuous times, we also
witnessed violent hate crimes and racist acts,
including horrific incidents directed toward AAPI
and African American communities. In the midst of
great tragedy and horror we also saw different
communities come together in the
struggle for racial and social justice. |
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Since one of the driving forces behind the WW II Japanese American
incarceration was attributed to racial
prejudice, many Japanese Americans feel
compelled to join with other
communities in denouncing hate, prejudice,
and violence and in continuing the fight for social
justice.
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Related to this theme, NOC is honored to
have featured Day of Remembrance speaker,
Cynthia Choi, a codirector
of Chinese for Affirmative Action and
cofounder of
Stop AAPI Hate.
Often cited by major news organizations, Stop
AAPI Hate has had a tremendous impact in
raising awareness about the rise of
violence and hate-based incidents directed
towards the AAPI community.
Not only is Stop AAPI Hate trying to
understand the realities of anti-Asian
racism, the organization is also a platform
for finding community-based solutions.
Locally, the
San Jose Nikkei Resisters (SJNR) is one
group that is forming community-based
solutions. Over the past year, SJNR
partnered with the
Council
on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in
presenting bystander intervention training
and de-escalation techniques. Kelsey
Ichikawa is the chair of the
Reimagining Public Safety Subcommittee in
SJNR and will talk about their recent work.
The 2022 Day of Remembrance program will also commemorate the
80th anniversary of the signing of
Executive
Order 9066. As part of this
commemoration, Eiko Yamaichi, as well as other
former incarcerees, will share their
personal stories about incarceration.
In 1988, the United States gave an official
apology to former incarcerees of the camps
with the passage of the
Civil Liberties Act of 1988. It is
important to note that there were many
people who were also incarcerated in the same
camps as Japanese Americans but were not
offered the same acknowledgement.
Grace Shimizu, Director of the
Campaign for Justice Redress Now for
Japanese Latin Americans, will speak
about the continued fight for truth,
acknowledgement, and justice.
Read more about the plight of
Japanese Latin Americans and the campaign
for justice...
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San Jose Nihonmachi
Outreach Committee (NOC) P.O. Box 2293, San Jose, CA 95109
E-Mail:
info@sjnoc.org
Website:
www.sjnoc.org
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our
enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |