August NOC News

NOC NEWS

Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC)
Equality, Justice, Unity

www.sjnoc.org

August 2025 Issue 1

In this issue

80th Anniversary Commemorations of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

	NOC 80th Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration
	Cupertino & Toyokawa Community Bell Ringing for Peace
	Eyewitness For Peace
	"Never Again" Rally at Livermore Lab

Alien Enemies Act
JAMsj Summer 2025 Sake Fundraiser
Snow Country Japanese American Internment Memorial and Pilgrimage
Japanese American Concentration Camp Pilgrimages

Click here to get to the YouTube viewing page for this program.

Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC) will present a virtual program on August 9, 2025, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm (Pacific Time) commemorating the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Featured are the Reverend Nobuaki Hanaoka, a Nagasaki survivor, and the Reverend Takashi Tanemori, a Hiroshima survivor, who have dedicated their lives to peace and the end of nuclear war. Reverend Tanemori speaks of his experiences in a short film by Jason Cordis, “The World I Want to Live In.” Scott Yundt, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs, speaks of the urgency of abolishing nuclear weapons and of ways to advocate the end of nuclear armament.

Also featured is “Drawings from Hiroshima Bomb Survivors,” a short film produced by NOC member Will Kaku.
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Visit this page or the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee website on the day of the event to view program.



Hiroshima Peace Memorial		Kichisuke Yoshimura. Courtesy of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Cupertino - Toyokawa Sister Cities
Community Bell Ringing for Peace

6:00 PM August 6, 2025
Cupertino Memorial Park


	The Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister Cities and City of Cupertino hosts a Bell Ringing for World Peace ceremony recognizing 80 years of peace between the US and Japan. In addition to the well-known atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII, Cupertino’s sister city of Toyokawa, Japan was also bombed as it was the location of Japan’s Naval Armory. This is an annual event to ask the community to come together to ring bells for world peace.



	Click here for more information on the rally at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab

Representatives from the Campaign For Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans have been featured speakers at several San Jose Day of Remembrance programs. You can read their statement opposing President Trump’s invocation and use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an outdated and discriminatory wartime law that devastated their families during WWII.

One of their current projects is to share the story of how 31,000 people of Japanese, Italian, and German ancestry were imprisoned under the Alien Enemies Act, often without evidence or due process.

Read a description of the project and watch the film trailer below.

JAMsj 2025 Summer
Sake Fundraiser

Saturday, August 16, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Japanese American Museum of San Jose
535 North 5th Street,
San Jose, CA, 95112

Back for another year, tickets are now available for our 2025 Summer Sake Fundraiser! Join us at JAMsj as we close out summer with chilled sake and cold beer, refreshing soft drinks, delicious small bites from local Japantown establishments, live entertainment, and a lively, selective raffle, all in a festive setting and for a good cause!

This year, we will be featuring local shamisen musician, Kyle Abbot, along with sakes and beverages presented by Sake Trend, Omurasaki & Koda Farms, Choya, Takara Sake, Hapa’s Brewing, and Deauratus Wines, along with food and small bites from Tcho Chocolates and local Japantown restaurants.

Tickets are now available and can be purchased through this link!

Snow Country Prison Japanese American
Internment Memorial and Pilgrimage

The Tule Lake Committee is sharing out an invitation for the inaugural Japanese American community pilgrimage to Bismarck, ND, Friday, September 5th, and Saturday, September 6th, 2025. This special event is a celebration that marks completion of the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment Memorial that has been decades in the making. Here is a link to that history.

The Memorial honors Japanese Americans who were interned in the U.S. Department of Justice (Fort Lincoln) camp in Bismarck during WWII, falsely demonized as “enemy aliens.” The Memorial is a project of one of the oldest Native American colleges, United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) and descendants of Bismarck internees. It was designed by the social-justice architectural firm, MASS Design Group. Members of the public and internee descendants are welcome to the celebration.

Click here for more details about the program, registration, transportation, and lodging.

Email if you have questions or for more information: Snowcountrypilgrimage@gmail.com

Upcoming Pilgrimages

		Crystal City Pilgrimage October 9, 2025 - October 12, 2025 Information and Registration
		Poston Pilgrimage Oct 24, 2025 - Oct 25, 2025 Information and Registration

San Jose Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC)
P.O. Box 10643
San Jose, CA 95157

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.

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