Education
The JACL is committed to the goal of educating our membership and the public at-large about the Japanese American historical experience and the lesson that the World War II incarceration holds for the future conduct of our government related to our Constitutional liberties.
Honouliuli, located in a gulch in central Oahu, was used during World War II to imprison Japanese community leaders and their families. The monument will preserve a forgotten but important part of American history about the treatment of thousands of Americans living in Hawaii.
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Houston, TX – The Art of Gaman exhibit continues its nationwide tour and will be on display at the Houston Holocaust Museum from January 29th to September 20th, 2015. AARP and JACL members who show their membership cards will receive $4 off general admission tickets. Viewed by nearly half a…
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Washington D.C. – Pending the President’s signature, over $2.9 million for Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) Grants have been approved for Fiscal Year 2015 with the passage of the 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Bill through Congress. The bill, which packages many of the smaller appropriations bills into a single larger bill,…
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JACL wrote to Half Yard Productions company to dissuade them from filming an episode of their “Diggers” reality program at Rohwer in Arkansas, the site of a World War II Japanese American concentration camp. The reality program features hosts who prowl historic areas in search of artifacts and valuables. JACL…
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Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach, California, has been selected as one of the 2014 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Historic Wintersburg, which currently contains six extant pioneer structures and open farmland, is one of the only surviving Japanese-owned properties acquired in California…
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