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2027 San Jose Day of
Remembrance
February 21, 2027
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The
Nihonmachi Outreach
Committee will present its 47th annual San
Jose Day of Remembrance, "Freeing the Voices of
Incarceration," on Sunday, February 21, 2027,
from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the San Jose Buddhist Church
Betsuin Annex. The event commemorates Executive Order
9066, signed by President Franklin Roosevelt, which led
to the forced removal and incarceration of over
125,000 persons of Japanese descent during World War
II.
The program will include local speakers, the traditional
candlelight ceremony with survivors of the World War II
incarceration camps, the candlelight procession through
historic San Jose Japantown, and musical performers from
the community.
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We are excited to announce that the call for artists is
now LIVE for the Never Again Is Now!: Disrupting Silence
and Memorializing Japanese American Incarceration at San
José State University.
San José State University is seeking an experienced
muralist or artist team to design and create a permanent
public mural on the north side of Yoshihiro Uchida Hall
in downtown San José. The project will acknowledge
SJSU’s role in the forced removal and incarceration of
Japanese Americans during World War II while centering
themes of resistance, accountability, reparatory
justice, solidarity, and the ongoing struggle against
institutional racism.
The mural will be highly visible along South Fourth
Street and will become part of SJSU’s permanent public
art collection. The selected artist will collaborate
with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and San José
Japantown community members through the Remembrance &
Resistance Committee and community input process.
Artists must be at least 18 years old, reside on the
West Coast, and demonstrate experience creating murals
or public art in complex settings.
The proposal deadline is Tuesday, January 12, 2027, at
3:00 p.m. PST.
More information for where to submit a proposal is also
available through the project website and Instagram:
Project website:
https://jahistorysjsu.squarespace.com/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd7cyyEgUKn/
Optional in-person site visit will be held on:
Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
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San Jose Nihonmachi
Outreach Committee (NOC)
P.O. Box 10643
San Jose, CA 95157E-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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