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LA Nebuta, the final float at the 2007 Nisei Week parade [14]. The Nisei Week Parade takes place on the primary Sunday of Nisei Week. The parade features many varied participants, mostly from Southern California and Japan, including the following: local high school marching bands, ondo dancing groups, martial art dojos, elected parade marshals (usually celebrities or community heroes ...
Every spring and fall, local youths from the community volunteer in a “Spit & Polish” event to help clean and maintain the memorial while also learning about some of the individuals listed, and every fall, the Nisei Week Queen and her court pay their respects to the men, many who were not much older than the girls themselves when they ...
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The story of the MIS Japanese-American translators was published in the 1988 book John Aiso and the MIS: Japanese-American Soldiers in the Military Intelligence Service by Tad Ichinokuchi, and the 2007 book [4] Nisei Linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II by James C. McNaughton.
Nisei military units that fought heroically in World War II will be honored Sept. 29 at the 19th annual Joint Memorial Service, at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. The 9 ...
Nisei Memorial VFW Post 8985 was founded in 1947 by Japanese-American World War II veterans of the 442nd RCT and the Military Intelligence Service in Sacramento, California. Its members would form the first of 14 segregated Nisei VFW posts chartered in California.
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White officers from the 442nd including Col Virgil R. Miller advocated on the behalf of the Nisei in Chicago to be allowed to form their own American Legion post 1183 in 1946, while Alva Fleming, a Navy veteran in Sacramento district leadership approved the charter for Nisei VFW Post 8985 in 1947. Fleming would go on to become the VFW State ...