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You are here: Home / Archives for Puyallup Assembly Center

Presentation recalls internment

November 2, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

On Oct. 14, 2015, Elsie Taniguchi, Cho Shimizu, and Eileen Yamada Lamphere presented a PowerPoint program about the Puyallup Assembly Center, aka Camp Harmony. This presentation was a joint effort by the Puyallup First Christian Church, Puyallup United Methodist Church, and Whitney Memorial Methodist Church, all in Puyallup, Wash. From April to September 1942, Elsie […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2015, Camp Harmony, Eileen Yamada Lamphere, Elsie Taniguchi, JACL, Puyallup Assembly Center, Vol 34 No 45 | October 31 - November 6

Memorial for Henry Miyatake

November 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

There will be a community memorial event for redress activist Henry Miyatake on Saturday, December 6, 2014, at NVC Memorial Hall, 1212 S King Street, Seattle, WA 98144. A pre-event social, with light refreshments, will begin at 1:00 PM. The memorial program will be from 2:00-3:00 PM.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2014, Congressman Mike Lowry, Henry Miyatake, PM, President Reagan, Puyallup Assembly Center, Puyallup Fairgrounds, Seattle Plan, Vol 33 No 48 | November 22 - November 28, WA

$2.9 million will go to Japanese American confinement sites

June 20, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Last week, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese Americans. More than 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were imprisoned by the U.S. government following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2014, Bainbridge Island, Congressional Gold Medal, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program, Japanese Americans, Kara Miyagishima, National Park Service, Panama Hotel, Pearl Harbor, Puyallup Assembly Center, Seattle Temporary Detention Facility, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27, War Relocation Authority

Japanese Americans silent no more, talk about internment

May 26, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Japanese American Lillia Uri Matsuda (née Satow) was interned when she was a nursing student at Seattle University (SU) in 1942.

Filed Under: Features, Education, Community News Tagged With: 2011, Ben Kayji Hara, Camp Harmony, Colette Yoshiko Kawaguchi, Executive Order, Fred Korematsu, Italian American, Japanese American Lillia Uri Matsuda, Japanese Americans, Joanne Misako Watanabe, Karen Korematsu, Madeleine Uyehara, Masuko Caroline Taniguchi, Puyallup Assembly Center, Seattle University, Shigeko Hirai, Supreme Court, United States, Vol 30 No 22 | May 28 - June 3, Yosh Nakagawa

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