Day of Remembrance 2026

The following Seattle JACL partner events will be commemorating the U.S. Executive Order 9066 signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942. Due to the threat of national security during World War II and the fight with Japan, 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from the U.S. West Coast were forcibly removed from their homes to incarceration camps.

Puyallup Valley JACL Day of Remembrance through Stories, Art and Literature
Sat, Feb 21; 10 a.m.-12p.m. Doors open at 9:45 a.m. WA St Fairgrounds Expo Hall, Remembrance Gallery, 110 – 9th Ave SW, Puyallup. Enter through Gold Gate.
Presenters – Hana Konishi, Paul Tomita, Tamiko Nimura, Chris Hopkins, and Stan Shikuma.
Free parking at Gold Parking Lot:  www.datocms-assets.com/6258/1710352139-sf24_parking_map_info.pdf.  For more info, contact Sharon Sobie Seymour at ssproevents@comcast.net.

Healing Communities
Fri, Feb 20; 5-7 p.m. University of Washington, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House, 4249 Whitman Ct, Seattle. Speakers include Satsuki Ina and Professor Daniel Winterbottom with performances by Troy Osaki, UW Taiko Kai, and others. For more info, contact Nikkei Student Union at: akimia@uw.edu nikkeiuw@uw.edu

Day of Remembrance and Resistance
Sat, Feb 21; 1-3 p.m. Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), 1623 E. J St, Tacoma. Tsuru for Solidarity, in coordination with La Resistencia, will show solidarity with immigrants and relate their experience
to that of our community during WWII. We will travel to NWDC from the Puyallup
Valley JACL DOR after attending their program. 
For more info, contact Stan Shikuma: sktaiko1@mac.com.