1998 Program
   
Children storytelling on stage.
   

Welcome

  KATHY N. MASAOKA           
Vice President, National Coalition or Redress/Reparations (NCRR)
  Click here for the NCRR DOR Statement
 
MICHI WEGLYN "THE SPIRIT OF REDRESS" TRIBUTE
  AYAKO HAGIHARA AND FRANK EMI
   
Speakers
  DR. CLIFFORD UYEDA, Past President, Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Founding President, National Japanese American Historical Society

DR. ARTHUR HANSEN, Director, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton

RUTH MIZOBE SHIKADA, Former Governor Pacific Southwest District Council of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

WILLIAM HOHRI, National Council for Japanese American Redress

TOSHIKO KAWAMOTO, Heart Mountain Fair Play

 
Certificate of Commendation
  TOM LA BONGE
Representative of Mayor Riordan, City of Los Angeles
 
"FIGHTING SPIRIT AWARD" TO MICHI WEGLYN
 
KAY OCHI, Vice President, NCRR
   
MICHI WEGLYN addresses the status of Redress in February 1998
 

Closing Statement for Program
   
 

2:00pm Workshops: JACCC, Second Floor

WHO WRITES JAPANESE AMERICAN HISTORY?
A look at how Japanese American history has been written, what has been excluded, included and why.
Kenji Taguma (Moderator), Dr. Arthur Hansen, William Hohri, Dr. Kaoru Oguri

REDRESS FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN RAILROAD WORKERS, MINERS AND JAPANESE LATIN AMERICAN INTERNEES
NCRR and the Campaign forJustice will report on their recent lobbying efforts and the current campaign needs Sponsored by the Campaign for justice and NCRR. JACCC, Second Floor

2:00pm: Little Tokyo Towers
FRIENDS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS READ FROM MICHI WEGLYN'S YEARS OF INFAMY AND THEIR OWN WORKS
Lawson Inada, Mako, Wakako Yamauchi, and friends of Michi Weglyn

3:00pm: Little Tokyo Towers
RECEPTION AND COFFEE WITH MICHI, HER FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS.
Everyone is welcome!!!!!

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1998,1-3:OOpm
BOOK SIGNING:
MICHI WEGLYN, SUE KUNITOMI EMBREY, DR. ARTHUR HANSEN, LAWSON FUSAO INADA, WILLIAM HOHRI, WAKAKO YAMAUCHI AND OTHERS WILL CHAT AND SIGN THEIR BOOKS.
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles