The Chapman University Nikkei Student Union will host its first Day of Remembrance observance on Thursday, Feb. 19, at Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, One University Dr. in Orange.
The event will be held in AF 209ABC from 5:30 to 6:50 p.m. and BK 404 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Guest speakers:
Takeshi Gasha, J.D. candidate at UC Irvine School of Law
June Aochi Berk, Legacy Project director of Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition and former Rohwer incarceree
Alan Takashi Riley, program coordinator of Kizuna
Soji Kashiwagi, executive producer of Grateful Crane Ensemble, whose father was incarcerated at Tule Lake
Michael Okamura, president of Little Tokyo Historical Society
Day of Remembrance programs are held on or around Feb. 19, the anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the incarceration of all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast.
For campus map and directions: www.chapman.edu/about/maps-directions/index.aspx
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