Seattle University Japanese Remembrance Garden Records, 1940-1946, 2004-2006.

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Seattle University Japanese Remembrance Garden Records, 1940-1946, 2004-2006.

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The Japanese Remembrance Garden, located east of Hunthausen Hall on the Seattle University campus, honors the partnership between Seattle University and the Japanese American community. This collection contains planning documents, minutes, and reports of the university's Japanese American Remembrance Garden Committee from 2004-2006. The collection also includes artifacts, news clippings, photographs, and photocopies of memorabilia relevant to family histories and internment at Minidoka Relocation Camp during World War Two; documents from the Minidoka Reunion (2003) including the newspaper The Minidoka Irrigator and Nisei Veterans newsletter; selected sermons and photographs of Father Leopold H. Tibesar (1898-1970), who was a Maryknoll priest and friend to the Japanese community; landscape maps highlighting the campus garden designs of master gardener Fujitaro Kubota and his son Tom Kubota; a copy of Anna Tamura's Gardens Below the Watchtower: Gardens and Meaning in World War II Japanese-American internment camps (University of Washington thesis, 2002); a copy of Report on Seattle's Maryknoll, April 1944 by James Y. Sakamoto.

2.5 linear feet.1 scrapbook box.

Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons

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SNAC Resource ID: 8144785

Seattle University, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons

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Kubota, Fujitaro.

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Japanese Remembrance Garden (Seattle, Wash.)

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Tibesar, Leopold H.

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Seattle University. Committee for the Japanese Remembrance Garden.

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Prior to World War Two, many Japanese and Japanese Americans lived and ran vibrant businesses in the neighborhoods surrounding the Seattle University campus. A few Japanese American students were enrolled at Seattle College in 1941, but compelled to end their studies when 120,000 people of Japanese heritage were forcibly relocated and held behind barbed wire in internment camps for three years, without having committed a crime and without due process. The Japanese Remembrance Garden honors the p...