Interned in Arkansas during World War II, and died at the Rohwer Relocation Center. Note, the concrete markers bear the names in traditional Japanese fashion of family name/given name, the reverse of Western practice.
A resident in of the two World War II–era incarceration camps built in Arkansas to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the last such internment camp to close. The camp housed, along with a camp in nearby Jerome, some 16,000 Japanese-Americans from Sept. 18, 1942, to Nov. 30, 1945. Its population, of which 64 percent were native-born U.S. citizens, had been forcibly removed from the west coast of America under the doctrine of "military necessity" and incarcerated in ten relocation camps in California and various states west of the Mississippi River. This marked the largest influx of any racial or ethnic group in the state's history.
Following the removal of the internees, the buildings left behind at Rohwer were used for local schools and by farmers for a variety of purposes before falling into ruin. The Rohwer National Historic Landmark, added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974, contains several monuments made by inmates during their internment, including one that honors Japanese American youth who died fighting for America in World War II, this Memorial Cemetery and the remnants of the hospital smoke stack.
Please note that the names are exactly as inscribed on the memorial at Rohwer.
A resident in of the two World War II–era incarceration camps built in Arkansas to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the last such internment camp to close. The camp housed, along with a camp in nearby Jerome, some 16,000 Japanese-Americans from Sept. 18, 1942, to Nov. 30, 1945. Its population, of which 64 percent were native-born U.S. citizens, had been forcibly removed from the west coast of America under the doctrine of "military necessity" and incarcerated in ten relocation camps in California and various states west of the Mississippi River. This marked the largest influx of any racial or ethnic group in the state's history.
Following the removal of the internees, the buildings left behind at Rohwer were used for local schools and by farmers for a variety of purposes before falling into ruin. The Rohwer National Historic Landmark, added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974, contains several monuments made by inmates during their internment, including one that honors Japanese American youth who died fighting for America in World War II, this Memorial Cemetery and the remnants of the hospital smoke stack.
Please note that the names are exactly as inscribed on the memorial at Rohwer.
Interned in Arkansas during World War II, and died at the Rohwer Relocation Center. Note, the concrete markers bear the names in traditional Japanese fashion of family name/given name, the reverse of Western practice.
A resident in of the two World War II–era incarceration camps built in Arkansas to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the last such internment camp to close. The camp housed, along with a camp in nearby Jerome, some 16,000 Japanese-Americans from Sept. 18, 1942, to Nov. 30, 1945. Its population, of which 64 percent were native-born U.S. citizens, had been forcibly removed from the west coast of America under the doctrine of "military necessity" and incarcerated in ten relocation camps in California and various states west of the Mississippi River. This marked the largest influx of any racial or ethnic group in the state's history.
Following the removal of the internees, the buildings left behind at Rohwer were used for local schools and by farmers for a variety of purposes before falling into ruin. The Rohwer National Historic Landmark, added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974, contains several monuments made by inmates during their internment, including one that honors Japanese American youth who died fighting for America in World War II, this Memorial Cemetery and the remnants of the hospital smoke stack.
Please note that the names are exactly as inscribed on the memorial at Rohwer.
A resident in of the two World War II–era incarceration camps built in Arkansas to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the last such internment camp to close. The camp housed, along with a camp in nearby Jerome, some 16,000 Japanese-Americans from Sept. 18, 1942, to Nov. 30, 1945. Its population, of which 64 percent were native-born U.S. citizens, had been forcibly removed from the west coast of America under the doctrine of "military necessity" and incarcerated in ten relocation camps in California and various states west of the Mississippi River. This marked the largest influx of any racial or ethnic group in the state's history.
Following the removal of the internees, the buildings left behind at Rohwer were used for local schools and by farmers for a variety of purposes before falling into ruin. The Rohwer National Historic Landmark, added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1974, contains several monuments made by inmates during their internment, including one that honors Japanese American youth who died fighting for America in World War II, this Memorial Cemetery and the remnants of the hospital smoke stack.
Please note that the names are exactly as inscribed on the memorial at Rohwer.
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