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USPS to Issue "Go For Broke" Stamp on June 3rd

4/26/2021

 
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This commemorative stamp is the culmination of over 15 years of efforts by the Stamp Our Story campaign founders and the many people who supported the effort.

The U.S. Postal Service has announced that the first day of issue is Thursday, June 3rd, 2021.

The first city of issue is Los Angeles, California, where the Go For Broke veteran widows and their friends first started to campaign for the stamp in 2005.

Customers will be able to pre-order the stamp online only, starting in late May, prior to the official release of the stamp.

For more information, click the link below:
https://niseistamp.org/

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

4/26/2021

 
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Join Densho on May 11 for the official book launch of Facing the Mountain, a new book about WWII Japanese American incarceration and the 442nd RCT by Daniel James Brown, NY Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat. The virtual event will feature a conversation between Brown and Densho Executive Director Tom Ikeda, who has conducted oral histories with many of the men highlighted in the book. Facing the Mountain grew out of conversations Brown had with Ikeda in 2015.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Facing the Mountain is an unforgettable chronicle of wartime America and the battlefields of Europe. Based on Brown’s extensive interviews with the families of the protagonists as well as deep archival research, it portrays the kaleidoscopic journey of four Japanese American families and their sons. While some fought on battlefields as members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, others fought to defend the constitutional rights of a community. Regardless of where their battles played out, these individuals were exemplifying American patriotism under extreme duress by striving, resisting, standing on principle, and enduring.

Facing the Mountain embodies the sort of far-reaching creative work that we dreamed would be possible when Densho was founded 25 years ago. The book draws upon the stories and words of Japanese American elders and ancestors to tell this history in a way that can reach vast audiences. Daniel James Brown has an exceptional ability to tell compelling, people-centered stories. He humanizes this part of history for a population of readers that may be learning about it for the first time.

“Facing the Mountain comes to us during a time of deep unrest, a time when our empathy for others is so needed to guide the choices we will make. This book will open hearts.” - Tom Ikeda, Densho Executive Director.

ABOUT DENSHO

Founded in 1996, Densho is a trailblazer in the use of digital technology to preserve and share the first-person story. Today, Densho hosts the largest online archive of oral histories and family collections on the Japanese American experience, in addition to a wealth of educational resources to help every American know the history and understand the lessons of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Anti-Hate & Hate Crime Resources

4/25/2021

 
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JACL responds to incidents of defamation and hate directed at Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through direct intervention or by providing assistance to JACL chapters to confront incidents in their local areas.

For resources, toolkits, articles, and more about anti-hate programs and hate crimes, you can visit our page on JACL.org by clicking the link below.

​https://jacl.org/antihate-program

Get Lit! Festival Presents: Displacement and the Japanese American Experience

3/21/2021

 
Spokane Chapter of JACL
​presents 
a Free Virtual Event
Displacement and the
Japanese American Experience

Sun April 18, 2021 @ 11:30 AM PST
Featuring Kiku Hughes and John Streamas
​

As part of Spokane's virtual
Get Lit! Festival by
Eastern Washington University
Preregister now at the following link:
https://inside.ewu.edu/getlit/festival/
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This event will explore Japanese American experiences, focusing on World War II internment camps and the damaging racial politics that allowed them to become a forgotten landmark of American history.

​Writer and professor John Streamas will open the event by sharing some of his poetry, and Kiku Hughes will read from her historical graphic novel Displacement, a riveting and bittersweet story of a teenager pulled back in time to witness her grandmother’s experience in internment camps during World War II. Following the readings, Streamas will lead Hughes in a discussion about her work and the importance of sharing historical narratives that still carry a timely weight.


For information on how to stream this free event, visit getlitfestival.org. Almost all festival events this year will be FREE and available to watch on their YouTube channel.
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More about Get Lit!: The Get Lit! Festival began in 1998 as a one-day marathon of literary readings sponsored by Eastern Washington University Press and EWU’s Department of Creative Writing. Then The Spokesman-Review lovingly called it “the little literary festival that could,” and they were right. By 2004, the festival had become a community tradition that thousands of people from Spokane and the surrounding region enjoy every year.

Witness to Wartime Exhibit at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture (MAC)

2/15/2021

 
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​January 23  -  May 16, 2021

2316 West 1st Avenue
Spokane, Washington 99201
(509) 456-3931

​Takuichi Fujii (1891 - 1964) was born in Hiroshima in 1891 and moved to the United States when he was 15. His paintings and drawings bore witness to his life in America and, most especially, to his experience during World War II, when Fujii, his wife, and daughters were incarcerated. They were confined first at the Puyallup temporary detention and in August 1942, sent to the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho until October 1945. 

Marking the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, the forced removal and internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, this showing of more than 70 paintings and drawings by Takuichi Fujii chronicles the harsh conditions and daily routine of his incarceration. 

***Update*** ​The MAC is now open 7 days a week for regular visits that still allow for social distancing. You must get your tickets in advance online (includes members). Visit the link below for more information:
https://www.northwestmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/witness-to-wartime-the-painted-diary-of-takuichi-fujii/
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Support Your Local Restaurants

2/8/2021

 
Indoor dining at our local restaurants is off-limits at the time of this news posting, amid rising COVID-19 cases. We encourage your help in supporting these local restaurants (like Ming Wah, Frankie Doodle's, Dick's Hamburgers & the Sukiyaki Inn) who have supported our Japanese community for many, many years. Support them by ordering takeout or delivery food.
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Go For Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII

2/1/2021

 
​The new "Go For Broke" US Stamp will be released sometime this year.
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With this commemorative stamp, the Postal Service recognizes the contributions of Japanese American soldiers, some 33,000 altogether, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

The stamp, printed in the intaglio method, is based on a photograph. "Go For Broke" was the motto of the all-Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team and came to represent all Japanese American units formed during World War II. The stamp was designed by art director Antonio Alcalá.

Vote for Your 2021-2022 Officers and Board Members

1/25/2021

 
Click here to cast your vote online! ​Voting ends March 31st.

COVID-19: Upcoming 2020 Events Canceled

3/17/2020

 
With concern for the health and safety of our members and the rest of the community, the next four events will be cancelled:

Sun, May 17 - Bosankai Service
Mon, June 8 - Bingo at Spokane Buddhist Temple
Sun, July 12 - Frankie Doodles Thank You Lunch
Mon, Sept 21 - Bingo at Spokane Buddhist Temple

Event Cancellation Notice

3/12/2020

 
​The Spokane Chapter JACL regrets to announce that due to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the upcoming Nikkei Appreciation Luncheon has been canceled.
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