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March 2020
Day of Remembrance Film Screening
Mukai Farm & Garden invites you to join us on Tuesday, March 3rd for the Day of Remembrance film screening. Seventy-eight years ago, on February 19th, Executive Order 9066 was signed which resulted in the forced incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, 121 of whom were from Vashon-Maury island.The award-winning documentary “A Bitter Legacy,” tells a part of the World War II incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans that most of us have never heard, a secret hidden…
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Join us at Mukai for the March Hinamatsuri Open House on Saturday, March 7th. “Hinamatsuri” also known as “Girls’ Day” or the “Doll’s Festival” – is normally celebrated on March 3rd each year to pray for the health and happiness of young girls in Japan. The Japanese celebration is marked by families with a display of hina dolls in the house and special food delicacies. The origin of Hinamatsuri most likely dates back to an ancient Chinese practice in which…
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Bellevue College apologizes after administrator alters display on Japanese American incarceration
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The art installation “Never Again Is Now,” created by Seattle artist Erin Shigaki, includes an 11-foot-tall mural of two children who were photographed at a California incarceration camp. The proj...Check our latest newsletter!
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Who is an American? The Day of Remembrance shows how vulnerable our rights can be and how we still need to protect them for today’s targeted families. Thank you Crosscut and Wing Luke Museum for the personal story of PNW Japanese Americans. And thank you Tsuru for Solidarity for demanding the best for all.
Perspective | A 'trail of ghosts' in Seattle, 78 years after Japanese incarceration
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On this Day of Remembrance, Japanese Americans help ask who gets to identify as American today.