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National Day of Remembrance
February 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join the Washington State History Museum on Feb. 17 in honoring the lives impacted by Executive Order 9066. National Day of Remembrance (observed annually on Feb. 19) recognizes President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 and the subsequent incarceration of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent living mostly in Washington, Oregon, and California.
This fascinating two-part program will be streamed via Facebook Live!
6:00 PM – Scholarly Selections: Becoming Nisei – Japanese American Lives in Prewar Tacoma. Hear from University of Washington Tacoma’s Lisa M. Hoffman, professor of urban studies and author of Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent, and Spaces of Danger: Culture and Power in the Everyday.
7:00 PM – Fujitaro Kubota and His Garden film screening and Q&A. This documentary film examines the enduring dreams and legacy of immigrant and nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, a self-taught gardener who built a thriving landscape business and, through many years of work and challenges, toiled and shaped a landmark Japanese garden in South Seattle. While incarcerated at the Minidoka (Idaho) concentration camp during World War II, Kubota also created a memorable garden in the desert where he was held. The film screening will be followed by Q&A with contributors to the companion book, Spirited Stone.
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