WEEK 3: SITES OF INCARCERATION
week three schedule
FILMS OF THE WEEK
SUNDAY - june 28, 2020
ELDER PANEL - shig yabu and Bacon Sakatani
Courtesy of Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
Bacon Sakatani and Shig Yabu share their stories of incarceration at Heart Mountain.
Saba Shioyaki:
- One mackerel, filleted
- Sake
- Kosher Salt
(garnish with grated Daikon and lemon wedges)
Shishito Peppers:
- Shishito
- Vegetable oil
- Kosher salt
(served with Ponzu Aioli)
- Kewpie Mayo
- Ponzu sauce
- Garlic powder
Namazuke (fresh cucumber pickles)
- Seedless Persian/Japanese cucumbers
- Kosher Salt
- Rice Vinegar
- Sesame oil
- Ground sesame seeds (optional)
Sunday Supper - omurice and saba shioyaki
Courtesy of the Embassy of Japan and Rob Buscher
Today's Sunday Supper features omurice made by chef Tanikawa Tsunayoshi and Saba Shioyaki made by Rob Buscher. Omurice is a fusion dish of Western and Japanese cuisine: it’s sweet and savory fried rice encased in a pillowy omelet. Saba Shioyaki is a popular seafood dish which can be an entree or part of a bento. Rob Buscher teaches us how to cook a simple izakaya-style dinner with Saba Shioyaki, shishito peppers, and namazuke cucumber pickles. The how-to tutorials are followed by a Q&A with Mia Russell and Rob Buscher.
Chef Tanikawa is an Embassy Chef at the Embassy of Japan in the United States of America in Washington, D.C.
Rob is Board Chair of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the JACL, and the film festival curator for the 2020 Tadaima! Virtual Pilgrimage.
Click here for the omurice recipe.
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Seattle NPS Japanese American Remembrance Trail: INS Building (Seattle Detention Station)
21 min, 13 sec
Courtesy of Wing Luke Museum
Take a tour of Seattle's Immigration and Naturalization Services building. Exhibits throughout the building guide visitors through the history of this facility. During WWII the FBI dragged Japanese Americans who were “under suspicion” away from their homes and incarcerated them without due process in this building. This was a prison, and often their families did not see their loved ones for months or even years. The exhibits within the building preserve the tangible reminders of the injustices done within its walls.
21 min, 56 sec
remembering manzanar
Courtesy of the National Park Service
Through the use of rare historic footage and photographs, and personal recollections of a dozen former incarcerees and others, Remembering Manzanar explores the experiences of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in a remote desert facility during World War II. Created as the "introductory film" at Manzanar National Historic Site, Remembering Manzanar gives viewers a sense of the place and its past, and a glimpse into a time when American citizens were exiled because of their ancestry. Original score by Kazu and Keiko Matsui.
children’s village at manzanar
Courtesy of Kanji Sahara
The Issei communities in California created three orphanages - two in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco. Because everyone of Japanese descent was to be evacuated, the orphans were removed from their homes too. Manzanar’s Children’s Village was created by the US military and other state and federal government agencies. Kanji Sahara leads us through the history of the orphanages and presents oral histories from Dennis Tojo Bambauer & Celeste Loi Teodor.
36 min, 15 sec
monday - june 29, 2020
8 min, 25 sec
minidoka curator’s corner
Courtesy of the National Park Service
Hanako Wakatsuki and Mira Nakashima tell the story of Ed Abe. Ed died at Minidoka while collecting wood to pass the time. Later, the wood was transformed into art. The mobile created from the wood is currently on view at Minidoka.
INTRODUCTION TO THE KOOSKIA, IDAHO, wwII JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMP (1943-1945)
Courtesy of Dr. Priscilla Wegars and University of Idaho: Asian American Comparative Collection
Kooskia Internment Camp, located in a remote part of north-central Idaho, was in operation from May 1943 to May 1945. This was the only work camp in the United States for Japanese American internees. Volunteers from other camps came to earn money working in the camp and on the road along the Lochsa River.
21 min, 51 sec
13 min, 16 sec
Toothbrushes, Glasses, and Artwork: Discovering the Everyday Lives of the Kooskia Internment Camp’s Prisoners
Courtesy of the Michigan State Department of Anthropology
Stacy Camp, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University, tells us about archaeological research at the Kooskia Internment Camp site.
brewing respect: beer and other basic rights at the kooskia internment camp
Courtesy of University of Idaho: Asian American Comparative Collection
Presented by Renae Campbell, Research Associate for the Asian American Comparative Collection at the University of Idaho, Moscow. Learn the history behind a beer bottle at the Asian American Comparative Collection at the University of Idaho. This beer bottle is a tangible connection to the basic rights that the internees were allowed at Kooskia.
12 min, 11 sec
3 min, 30 sec
dusted off: art students league of heart mountain
Courtesy of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation
Registrar Brandon Daake explores the story of professional artists at Heart Mountain through pieces in the Foundation's collection.
30 sec
nameplates: i am not a number (poston)
Courtesy of 50 Objects/50 Stories
Soon after the first detention sites opened in spring of 1942, nameplates began to appear on barracks. “All residential blocks looked alike; people were lost all the time," wrote the artist Miné Okubo. The nameplates helped people find their way. They also seemed to say: "I am not a number." Learn how a rare collection of Poston nameplates was saved and identified.
To learn more about nameplates that were used to identify families’ barracks, click here to go to the 50 Objects/50 Stories website.
COMMUNITY ARCHIVE
This is a space to share photos, stories, artifacts, and memories from your family, your community, and your own life. Click HERE to enter.
tuesday - june 30, 2020
2 min, 22 sec
GILBERT’S GARDEN-EPISODE 3
Courtesy of the National Park Service
Learn about the three grass species that we are going to grow and how they are beneficial when trying to use native landscaping around your house.
1 hr, 10 min
winter read panel discussion: The bitter and sweet
Courtesy of The Community Library
The Community Library welcomes local families who will share their stories of immigration, incarceration, military service, and community.
Marsha Takahashi Edwards is a Seattle native and Wood River Valley resident. Both her parents were incarcerated at Minidoka and met at the camp during their teenage years. Marsha’s mother’s family was removed from the fishing community of Petersburg, Alaska, and her father’s family was removed from their home in Seattle. Marsha’s father later joined the famous 442nd Combat Division, Company L, and earned both a Purple Heart and the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service during World War II. Marsha’s family story is featured in the Library’s foyer exhibit, “The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.”
Rod Tatsuno has resided in Ketchum since 1970. He was born in the Tanforan Assembly Center in California in 1942 following his family’s removal from San Francisco. Before incarceration, his family ran a dry goods and housewares store called “Nichi Bei Bussan.” After Rod’s birth, the family was transferred from Tanforan to the Topaz War Relocation Center in Delta, Utah, where Rod spent his formative years. His father was able to smuggle an 8mm movie camera into the camp. Rod’s father used the camera to document the family’s life in Topaz. This film is currently on display at the Regional History Museum, accompanying the poster exhibit “Righting A Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II.” Rod’s family story and photos and artifacts are on loan to the Library’s foyer exhibit, “The Bitter and Sweet: World War II Stories of Japanese Americans in the West.”
Joan Davies is an Idaho native and resident of Hailey. She grew up on and still manages a farm in Hazelton, near Camp Hunt (Minidoka). At Minidoka, her mother taught at the Greenwood School (the local two-room schoolhouse), and her father raised livestock and crops. During World War II and the incarceration period, incarcerees from Minidoka traveled to Hazelton to work on the family farm. Joan will share memories of the relationships her family developed with the incarcerees and about helping to rebuild a baseball field at the Hunt Camp site to honor the ten baseball fields that existed between 1942 and 1945.
13 min, 30 sec
sing-a-long
Courtesy of Kanji Sahara and Friends
Kanji Sahara hosts a sing-along for the 2020 Tadaima virtual pilgrimage, starting with a song which was popular in the Jerome/Rohwer camp.
Wednesday - july 1, 2020
topaz toddler art project
Courtesy of Dana Ogo Shew
Please help us locate these Topaz Toddlers!
Help us reunite Topaz toddlers with their works of art! A collection of paintings, drawings, and artwork from Preschools A, B, C, D, and Pre-Kindergarten contains pieces by toddlers born between 1939 and 1943. If you are one of these toddler artists or teachers, or know how to contact them, we would love to hear from you!
1 min, 7 sec
Live Q&A with sheridan tatsuno
Join Sheridan Tatsuno for a Q&A discussion about his life and the life and legacy of his father, Dave Tatsuno.
Businessman, community leader, and amateur filmmaker Dave Tatsuno smuggled his movie camera into the Topaz concentration camp, capturing life inside. In 1991, Tatsuno donated his Topaz movie and other footage to the Japanese American National Museum. His footage of camp life garnered national fame and became one of the most important visual records of the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Sheridan will also offer reflections on growing up in San Jose, the emergence of the Asian American movement during his college years, and his unique perspective on the 1980s-1990s trade wars as someone who worked overseas with Japanese corporations.
Topaz
Courtesy of Cory Shiozaki
View original home movie footage and listen to the story of a cherished blanket that became a family heirloom.
1 min, 14 sec
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JA Opportunity Fair | INC & NSU presented by Kayla Tanaka & Yoko Morishita Fedorenko
thursday- july 2, 2020
Densho GENEALOGY SESSION-US records
Link available at 1:00 pm Pacific Time
Courtesy of Densho and Tom Ikeda
While researching your family history it’s important to understand where records are located, how to find and order records, and how to extract critical data from those records. Learn about the most important types of documents for your family history journey, including vital records, census records, and more. Having this information will help you if you decide to research in Japan. You will need to click the button below and fill out a web form to access the video.
ONE ON ONE GENEALOGY CONSULTATIONS
Brought to you by California Genealogical Society, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, NPS and JAMP
Tadaima 2020 participants were provided online sessions with consultants for one-on-one help with researching their roots. Space was limited and sessions were only 20 minutes, so preparation was key!
tadaima: a pilgrimage to remember
Courtesy of the Duncan Ryūken Williams
Duncan Ryūken Williams shares the journey he’s undertaken to become a Japanese American.
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The Yon-Say Podcast: Ep 3 "An American Nightmare" | Guests: Jason Fujii & Lauren Matsumoto
#dearancestors
By Brynn Saito
Week 3: Forced Removal, Incarceration, Movement (1941-1943)
Prompt: Letters from the Stone. When visiting Manzanar with my parents, I remember wandering the landscape, struck by the scatterings of stones amidst the desert brush. I started to wonder what the stones would say if they could speak—an imaginative act that led to the writing of “persona” poems from the point of view of a stone. (Read one here.) The invitation: imagine life from the point of view of an element in the landscapes where our elders were confined—the stone, the sage, the mountain. Write a letter from the point of view of that element, using the first person “I” voice. Perhaps the letter is written to one of your relatives in camp, perhaps it’s written to you, in the present.
23 min, 2 sec
poston incarceration site
Courtesy of Poston Community Alliance
In this video, you will learn about Poston's unique history, especially the intersection between the Japanese American and Native American communities, and also about the current efforts of the Poston Community Alliance in preserving Poston's historic structures, artifacts and stories.
friday - july 3, 2020
Baseball Behind Barbed Wire: Celebrating the Legacy of Japanese American Baseball
Courtesy of Bill Staples, Jr.
Baseball historian and author Bill Staples, Jr. provides an overview of baseball at Gila River, Arizona during WWII. This includes the life and legacy of Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball.
36 min, 8 sec
Book Club: Baseball Saved Us
Courtesy of the Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee
Join author Ken Mochizuki for a discussion about his book, Baseball Saved Us.
From Seattle, Washington, Ken Mochizuki is the author of the award-winning and bestselling children's picture books Baseball Saved Us, Heroes and Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story. He is also the author of the picture book, Be Water My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee and the young adult novel, Beacon Hill Boys. As a journalist and historian, he is the author of, and contributor to, several adult nonfiction histories, including Meet Me At Higo: An Enduring Story of a Japanese American Family and Minidoka Memoirs: The Untold Story from the Yoshito Fujii Files. He is also the writer of the Living Voices performance piece "Within the Silence," and a musical version of Baseball Saved Us staged by Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre.
ARTIST TALK WITH round rock collective
The Round Rock Collective (founded 2018) features creative collaborations by the Ishimaru cousins. Their surname, Ishimaru, means “Round Rock.” The cousins’ work integrates each of their individual practices. Featuring Miki Palchick, a ceramic artist, Sophie Sarkar a photographer and painter, and Andrienne Palchick a print and documentary artist. Together these artists explore themes based in nature, growing, home-making, and the rituals that accompany these activities. These themes celebrate grounding in times of dislocation.
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7:00 pm pacific time
Hearthside Chats | Live Small Group Discussions
Throughout the Tadaima virtual pilgrimage participants learned about Japanese American incarceration and the experiences leading up to and following the incarceration. We found group discussions helped us to absorb the lessons from the pilgrimage. During our Hearthside Chats, Nikkei Rising held small weekly discussion groups for individuals of all ages and backgrounds.
saturday - july 4, 2020
Kimitomo Muromoto: A Portrait
Courtesy of Minidoka Pilgrimage Planning Committee and Nisei Veterans Committee and NVC Foundation
Kimitomo Muromoto Sr., an assistant Browning Automatic Rifleman in the 442nd RCT during WWII, shares some of his memories from the years around and during WWII.
7 min, 9 sec
Director's Commentary (Conscience & the Constitution) + Live Q&A with frank Abe
During Tadaima 2020, director Frank Abe and moderator Erin Aoyama hosted a live group viewing of the film, “Conscience and the Constitution” (directed by Frank Abe). While the film streamed, Frank offered a director’s commentary on the making of the film. Also included were behind-the-scenes stories about the Heart Mountain draft resisters. Participants posted questions in the live chat for discussion after the film. In addition, moderator Erin Aoyama shared her own experience of building a database with the biographies and archival files of all 63 defendants in the largest mass trial in Wyoming history.
NIKKEI BLOCK PARTY!
Host Christine Kitano shared the short film “For Joy.”
Musician Kishi Bashi performed live