On February 4th, Consul General Hiroshi Inomata attended the Day of Remembrance event hosted by the JACL Merced-Livingstone Chapter and Cortez Chapter. Day of Remembrance is an annual event of the Japanese American community which reminds everyone about the history that all Japanese Americans in the west coast experienced-where they were sent to internment camps by Executive Order 9066 which President Franklyn Roosevelt initiated. The Merced Fair Ground is the former site of the Merced Assembly Center where the Japanese Americans who lived in San Joaquin Valley were gathered before they were sent to the camp. In 2010, the Japanese American community in San Joaquin Valley founded the Memorial in the same fair ground.
In his greeting at the ceremony, Consul General Inomata, as the first Consul General of Japan who attended a Japanese American event in San Joaquin Valley, stated that the history of Japanese Americans issomething Japanese people should know about and remember and thus reiterated why it is important for him to be there.
Date:
Saturday, February 4th
Location:
Merced
For more information, please contact Yoshi Tasaka at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco. Tel: (415) 777-3533 ext. 441
