2023 GVJCI Day of Remembrance Online Event
Each year, the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute (GVJCI) holds its annual Day of Remembrance (DOR) which commemorates the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. A different theme and related film is selected each year, and a panel of experts is carefully selected to help further educate the community on the events, experiences, and lessons that should be learned from this time in American history. The GVJCI and the DOR Committee are so grateful for the tremendous support shown by the community each year and hope our DOR program continues to educate and motivate all people to speak out against injustice in all its forms.
This year, the theme for the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute’s 2023 Day of Remembrance will be “Campaign For Justice: The Japanese Latin American Story,” highlighting the hidden history and stories of Japanese Latin Americans who were abducted from their home countries and wrongfully incarcerated in the United States during World War II. In a virtual live program on Saturday, February 25, 2023, the GVJCI will feature the 2004 short film, Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story followed by a discussion with a panel of experts featuring Director of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project and coordinator for Campaign For Justice: Redress Now For Japanese Latin Americans, Grace Shimizu, University of Maryland professor and Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Phil Nash, and former Crystal City incarceree Chieko Kamisato. We hope the community will come away with a stronger understanding of the meaning of justice, the repercussions of ongoing discriminatory action by the government, and what people can do to support the cause and fight for redress. To register for this online event, please visit the GVJCI website.
This program is co-sponsored by The George and Sakaye Aratani CARE Award, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Valerie J. Matsumoto, George and Sakaye Aratani Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community, University of California, Los Angeles.
This year, the theme for the Gardena Valley Japanese Cultural Institute’s 2023 Day of Remembrance will be “Campaign For Justice: The Japanese Latin American Story,” highlighting the hidden history and stories of Japanese Latin Americans who were abducted from their home countries and wrongfully incarcerated in the United States during World War II. In a virtual live program on Saturday, February 25, 2023, the GVJCI will feature the 2004 short film, Hidden Internment: The Art Shibayama Story followed by a discussion with a panel of experts featuring Director of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project and coordinator for Campaign For Justice: Redress Now For Japanese Latin Americans, Grace Shimizu, University of Maryland professor and Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Phil Nash, and former Crystal City incarceree Chieko Kamisato. We hope the community will come away with a stronger understanding of the meaning of justice, the repercussions of ongoing discriminatory action by the government, and what people can do to support the cause and fight for redress. To register for this online event, please visit the GVJCI website.
This program is co-sponsored by The George and Sakaye Aratani CARE Award, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Valerie J. Matsumoto, George and Sakaye Aratani Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community, University of California, Los Angeles.
Day of Remembrance Program Speakers
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Grace Shimizu, Director, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project, Coordinator, Campaign For Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans!She is the director of the Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project and coordinator of Campaign For Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin Americans!
Her parents were Japanese Latin Americans interned during World War II by the U.S. Government. Campaign for Justice: Redress Now For Japanese Latin Americans! is an organization that was formed to secure proper redress for former Japanese Latin American internees and educate the public about the wartime and redress experiences of the Japanese Latin Americans. |
Phil Nash, Professor, Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)Phil Tajitsu Nash teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), and serves as Co-President of the Board of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF). He previously served as Founding Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), Curator of the Asian Pacific American Program at the Smithsonian Institution’s 2010 Folklife Festival, and columnist for the N.Y. Nichibei and Asian Week newspapers.
Nash has taught law, urban studies, and APA history, art, oral history, and public policy classes at UMCP, Yale, New York University, The City College of New York, and CUNY and Georgetown law schools. He also is affiliated with the University of Maryland Latin American Studies Center, based on a Study Abroad class he has taught bringing students to an Indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon, his research on Japanese Brazilians, and his decades of work with Native Americans in North America and Brazil on human rights, culture, and language issues. |
Chieko Kamisato, Former Crystal City concentration camp incarcereeBio coming soon!
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COMMEMORATIVE GVJCI DOR PIN SET DONATION GIFT
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Those who donate a minimum of $20 have the option of receiving a commemorative GVJCI DOR pin set (pin size is 1.25" in diameter). Each additional $20 donation qualifies for another pin set. Pin set gifts available for qualified donations received through March 11, 2022. Pins will be mailed out to donors in April. Thank you for your support!
This program is co-sponsored by the George and Sakaye Aratani CARE Award and UCLA Asian American Studies Center
DOR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
1. Do I need to register for all 5 DOR days (Feb. 22-26)?
Nope! You only register for the live virtual event taking place on Saturday, Feb. 26th. Feb. 22-25 will feature content published to the GVJCI website, so you do NOT need registration to view these.
2. How can I view all 5 days of DOR content?
Easy! Simply visit the GVJCI website's DOR page each day from Feb. 22-25. New content will be published each day. If you're on our email list, you'll get an email each day that will link to that day's content (i.e. you don't need to do a thing!). However, to view the live virtual program on 2/26, you'll need to register using our online form.
3. Will there be a recording of the live program available?
YES! A recording of the 2/26 live virtual event will be published to the GVJCI YouTube page and the DOR homepage.
Nope! You only register for the live virtual event taking place on Saturday, Feb. 26th. Feb. 22-25 will feature content published to the GVJCI website, so you do NOT need registration to view these.
2. How can I view all 5 days of DOR content?
Easy! Simply visit the GVJCI website's DOR page each day from Feb. 22-25. New content will be published each day. If you're on our email list, you'll get an email each day that will link to that day's content (i.e. you don't need to do a thing!). However, to view the live virtual program on 2/26, you'll need to register using our online form.
3. Will there be a recording of the live program available?
YES! A recording of the 2/26 live virtual event will be published to the GVJCI YouTube page and the DOR homepage.