He said, ‘I have to let you go because we’re not the same side anymore.’ He didn’t stop to think that I was an American

An eagle-eyed BIJAC member, Karen Matsumoto, recently snapped a photo of a farm-style tribute to Akio Suyematsu, local legend and last Japanese American farmer on

Opinion by  George F. Will CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE IN THE WASHINGTON POST BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — On the side of a lightly

The Biennial BIJAC Picnic was held on Sunday, August 7th, at its traditional home, the Battle Point Park picnic shelter. Under cool and mostly cloudy

On this August 6th & 9th please reflect & remember what happened 76 years ago in Hiroshima & Nagasaki. And as you continue to work

A new long-term gallery, Remembrance: The Legacy of Executive Order 9066 in Washington State, opened on June 17th, 2021 at the Washington State Historical Museum,

Mary Fujioka August 1, 1926 to June 9, 2021 Mary Fujioka, age 94, passed away June 9 on Bainbridge Island, WA, of natural causes. Mary

From the 2006 Congressional testimony of Fumiko Hayashida, to the “Leaving Our Island” curriculum at Bainbridge Island School District, to guided tours at the Exclusion

TONY KOURA, 94, of Honolulu, HI, a WWII Army veteran and retired command historian for the U.S. Pacific Command Headquarters, passed away on May 4,

Walk The Farm, a project of Tanaka Farms and the OCO Club of Southern Californa, is dedicated to spreading awareness and helping send a message

Date: May 19, 2021 Contact: Charles Beall, charles_beall@nps.gov, 206-491-6132   Introducing the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Junior Ranger Program  Today, the Bainbridge Island Japanese

Check out this Sacramento Bee story about Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura’s new graphic novel about Japanese American resisters during WWII — a group that

Shared by Aura Newlin, Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: I want to share this piece by our friend Karen “Kara” Chittenden, Senior Cataloging Specialist in the

Visitors Ingrid and Christian from Riverside, CA tour the Exclusion Memorial with Lilly Kodama Spring has Sprung at the Memorial Recent beautiful Spring weather has

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The auction of a series of sketches purportedly drawn by an artist at the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar was canceled

STATEMENT We in Chavurat Shir Hayam stand in solidarity with AAPI and honor the work done by them and other organizations – MAC, SURJ, BIJAC,

Read about the 79th Commemoration of the forced removal of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island during World War II in The Kitsap Sun. (photo by Meegan

Read about the 79th Commemoration of the forced removal of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island during World War II in The Seattle Times. (photo by

For those planning to participate in the AAPI Vigil and March planned for the weekend of April 3-4, the events have been postponed to the

“The internment of Japanese-American citizens remains one of the darkest and most shameful periods in our history. The stories of so many who unjustly lost