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2021 Day of Remembrance Issue |
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41st Annual San
Jose Day of Remembrance
2021 Films of
Remembrance
Bay Area
Day of Remembrance 2021
Setsuko's Secret Series |
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View the
program by
accessing this link:
https://youtu.be/UZSt_pUVBpE
No registration is required |
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The Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC)
presents the 41st San Jose Day
of Remembrance event, to be held
online on Sunday, February 14 from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
(Pacific Time). The event commemorates 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 Confronting Race in
America: Unifying Our Communities. Although many
of our communities have been suffering from the
effects of racism for generations, people outside of
these communities are finally realizing that there
are enormous disparities throughout our society due
to race. |
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Many people have taken action to confront these issues in the struggle
for racial and social justice. 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 their fight for social
justice.
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Photo by Dai Sugano
San
Jose Mercury News |
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Related to this theme, NOC is honored to
have featured speaker Reverend
Jethroe Moore II, President of the
San Jose NAACP.
NOC sat down for an hour-long
interview with Reverend Moore in
January. In this segment -- which
will not be a part of our Day of
Remembrance program -- Reverend
Moore talks about police
accountability and the rise of hate
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Tomio
Hayase-Izu of the
Nikkei Resisters will speak about
H.R.
40, Commission to Study and Develop
Reparation Proposals for African Americans
Act. Remembrance speaker Alice
Hikido will relate her own
experience of wartime incarceration. NOC
Keynote Speaker Bekki Shibayama
and Grace Shimizu of the
Campaign for Justice: Redress NOW
for Japanese Latin Americans will share the recent favorable ruling
for former Japanese Latin American
incarcerees. Athar Siddiqee
of the
South Bay Islamic Association
will reflect on Executive Order 9066 and the
close bond formed between Muslim Americans
and Japanese Americans.
The San Jose
Day of Remembrance event has had a special
relationship with
San Jose Taiko.
San Jose Taiko will discuss their history
and how the Day of Remembrance event has
influenced their artistic expression.
Jon Jang and his
ensemble will perform from his recent work
"The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance."
This program will also
use various landmarks in historic San Jose
Japantown and in surrounding areas as a
backdrop in telling our community's
unique story. |
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2021 Day of Remembrance Film Trailers |
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Issei Stone/Nikkei
Lantern
Each year, the Day
of Remembrance holds a solemn candlelight
procession that passes the Issei
Pioneer Stone, underneath the
Nikkei Lantern. The magic
of the Issei Pioneer Stone and the Nikkei
Lantern are featured in this
2021
San Jose Day of Remembrance trailer. |
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Activism on Campus:
Tommie Smith, John Carlos, and Black Lives
Matter
This
trailer for the 2021 San Jose Day of
Remembrance spotlights student activism at
San Francisco Bay Area colleges in the 1960s
and 1970s. The Tommie Smith and John Carlos
monument at San Jose State University serves
as a backdrop. Decades before Colin
Kaepernick, these two Olympic medalists from
SJSU took a stand for civil rights. |
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Issei Voices Monument: A
Love Letter to the Many People Who Built
Nihonmachi (Japantown)
This short
Day
of Remembrance film trailer is a
celebration of the many people who helped
build Nihonmachi, one of the three remaining
Japantowns in the United States. The Issei
Voices Monument on the corner of 5th Street
and Jackson Street is used as a backdrop. |
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