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« 1ère AMC Lucile Bait 17/11/22 Last week of September Title : The Irei project : National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration, which addresses the erasure of the identities of those incarcerated. Important facts to remember : Contexte February, 19 1942: -11 week after Japan bombed Perl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, it authorized the removal of Japanese-Americans from U.S.

military zones in Washington, Oregon and California. -About 120 000 “evacuees” were forced to abandon their homes and businesses and nearly two-thirds of them were native-born U.S.

citizens.

Thousands of families, some with children an seniors, were moved to internment camps or “Bilocation Centers” on the west coast. -During the WWII, more than 1 000 internees volunteered for military service January 1945 : -About five months after Japan’s surrender, residents were released from the camps they’d been held in for nearly three years. The Irei project: Includes 3 parts: the Ireicho, Ireihi, Ireizo The Ireichō project was led by Duncan Ryuken Williams, director of the University of Southern California’s Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, and creative director Sunyoung Lee. Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei Monument Project expands and re-envisions what a monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: a sacred book of names as monument (慰霊帳 Ireichō), an online archive as monument (慰霊蔵 Ireizō), and light sculptures as monument (慰霊碑 Ireihi).

Drawing on traditions of monuments built in America’s internment and concentrations camps—such as the Manzanar Ireito, the Amache Ireito, and Rohwer’s Ireihi (Soul Consolation Towers or Monuments)—the project aims to memorialize the past and repair the fractures caused by America’s racial karma. with teams of volunteers across the country to undergo the painstaking process of researching, transcribing and verifying the names of those who were held at the 75 identified incarceration sites, including US army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority camps. “The project is about repairing the historical record,” Williams said.

“Part of the work of repair is to honor those who were unjustly incarcerated, but it’s also simply to make sure that no one is left out.” “We think we’re close to 99.5% confident,” he said.

Volunteers consulted various sources, including Densho, a non-profit that aims to preserve the history of Japanese Americans during the second world war As the first comprehensive list of the more than 125,000 Japanese individuals imprisoned during the second world war, the project also marks the first time it’s been possible to recognize each detainee as individuals, not just as part of the broader Japanese and Japanese American community. Starting 11 October, visitors to the Japanese American National Museum will be encouraged to use a Japanese hanko, a stamp or seal, to place a mark next to a name in the book as a way to honor that person. Families are also welcomed to find and stamp the names of their loved ones.

Williams said his goal is to have every name in the book acknowledged during the year that it’s on display. During the installation ceremony on 25 September, Williams said he saw people’s shock over the massiveness of the book, which he expected – he’d envisioned the Ireichō as being “Gutenberg Bible-sized” – but he also noticed something unexpected. “People’s hands were shaking, so many of them, as they were putting the stamps on the names,” he said. “For many people, this was about honoring a parent, a sibling, a favorite uncle, so you could feel how important it was for them to get the stamp to go to the right place.” Williams said he was touched after seeing so many multigenerational families take part in stamping the book together, referring to it as “an opportunity for families to pass on this history, and to make the younger generations feel they’re connected to this history”.

Non-Japanese Americans also attended the ceremony, including Indigenous elders from Heart Mountain, Wyoming, where one of the 10 WRA camps was held. “Having non-Japanese American people also be involved, to me, is important,” Williams said.

“Because in the end, it’s a broad American public we want to engage.” Saturday, September 2022 : -80th anniversary of President Franklin D.

Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066 (often forgotten due to Japanese survivors who dwindle each year) - the co-hosting of a series of events (which recapitulate what was happened, the impact of it and what we can do from this in the future) by the National Park Service, Smithsonian National Museum of American History and Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation -new project lunch to help memorialized the 125 000 Japanese and Japanese- American incarcerated in internment camps during WWII.

The project include a book of the names of those incarcerated and online archive and special ceramic peace made from soil collected from former Japanese American incarceration sites including one in Portland. -“The aim of this project is to maintain as a monument side as a side of conscience the assemble center are a exposition in north-portland and there are efforts and continuing efforts to not only look at what the history as of that place but the significents on a national scoops…” Chisao Hata, creative director of the living arts program at the Japanese-American project of Oregon. -The New museum open last year and it’s on the corner of northwest forth in Flanders in alltown Portland, a location which used to be in a city’s Japan town or Nihomachi which had a thravin population for nearly 60 years -The museum aims preserve the history and up list the contribution of Japanese and Japanese-American in the pacific northwest. -Portland motives enable heard was known as a farm village with 36 Japanese farmers growing a variety of berries and vegetables on nearly 70 000 hectares that allowed the village to be at a very important place in the market as the king of celery.

But with the WWII, everything changed, due to racism, war hysteria.

IN a matter of days, both Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens had to sell of personal belonging see their goodbyes and surrender to detention at a temporary assemble center.

In Portland, that was at the pacific international livestock and exposition center that we know now as the Exposition center.

This is where Chisao Hata gathered soil from.

The new IA national monument for the WW2 Japanese-American incarceration is in L.A.

and it also includes the installation of the Ireichō, a sacred book of names that contains the most comprehensive list of interned Japanese and Japanese Americans to have ever been compiled. -The Japanese-American Museum of Oregon is currently working to ensure that the expose seener is recognize those in area w Sources : The Gardian, USA today, OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 1ère AMC Lucile Bait 17/11/22 Last week of September Title : The Irei project Intro Hello, I’m Lucile and today, I will present you a very important and massive work that has been released in the US: The Irei project. The Irei project is a National Monument for the WWII Japanese American Incarceration, which addresses the erasure of the identities of those incarcerated.

Led by USC Ito Center Director Duncan Ryuken Williams and Project Creative Director Sunyoung Lee, the Irei Monument Project expands and re-envisions what a monument is through three distinct, interlinking elements: the Ireicho, which is a sacred book of names that contains the most comprehensive list of interned Japanese and Japanese Americans to have ever been compiled, there is then the Ireizo, an online archive as monument and to finish, the Ireihi which is some special ceramic peace made from soil collected from former Japanese American incarceration sites.

All these works have been drawing on traditions of monuments built in America’s internment and concentrations camps, such.... »