https://wesaidnono.com/home daily 1.0 2023-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/5133bcc0-e304-44d1-a5e5-ae869bea9eb6/WSNN+Logo.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/bbbd0add-a8a2-4d18-afc2-136f3d7b1e51/WSNN+Promo+12.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/848ef4bf-26b8-4088-b261-ecc3c45208d7/WSNN+Promo+13.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/554f3953-7b07-4f0d-9202-62fb5d8f2caa/WSNN+Trailer+1.png Home Directed by Brian Tadashi Maeda, who was born in Manzanar. His family spent three years there. For years, Brian wanted to understand what really happened to his people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/acdc9e5f-6aa1-4d9a-9527-636f9431c0f1/WSNN+Trailer+9.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/9fba976d-7e2f-43d4-aa84-ff30ccb483eb/Violet+Matsuda.jpg Home - Make it stand out Violet de Cristoforo, formerly Violet Matsuda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/475f849c-6aba-431d-9ddd-a75f65a3afea/IATSE+PIN.png Home - Make it stand out Pin awarded to Brian by IATSE cinematographer’s union in honor of 50 years of service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/6ce0a562-ff1a-4123-a410-6c5ad0d190ed/brian+headshot.png Home - Brian Tadashi Maeda Director, Producer, Writer, and Actor Brian Tadashi Maeda was born in Manzanar, a World War II American concentration camp. He graduated from UCLA in Cinematography has always wanted to show films from a Japanese American point of view. Brian was one of the first Asian Americans to be accepted in the Hollywood International Cinematographers Guild in the 1970s. He's worked with the likes of Barbra Streisand at the Warner Bros Studio, renowned cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, and on TV shows and features throughout the 70s and 80s such as "Uncommon Valor" with Gene Hackman. Brian started J-Town Pictures in 1990 in order to tell the tumultuous and often untold stories about Asian Americans. His films "Music Man of Manzanar", "Buddha-Heads", and "We Said No! No!" have won critical acclaim at festivals and been played nationally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/463ec9fc-1db0-49d8-8896-16ddb65e98db/WSNN+Promo+24.png Home - Make it stand out James Murakami (center) Acclaimed Production Designer, who lived at Tule Lake with his family. 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Tule Lake was officially closed in March 20, 1946 after the petitions were resolved. People were kicked out of the camps and given $25 and a train ticket to their pre-war address even though many had no homes or a job to go back to. APOLOGIES AND REPARATIONS President Gerald Ford officially repealed Executive Order 9066 in 1976, and in 1988, Congress issued a formal apology and passed the Civil Liberties Act awarding $20,000 each to over 80,000 Japanese Americans as reparations for their treatment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/551080dc-6bd3-4ec7-ae27-f4a8d71c1432/Enemy+ALiens+TURNED+OVER+TO+JUSTICE+DEPT_Tule_AAB-2553_permission+needed+from+SFPubLib.jpg History - Japanese internment camps were established during World War II by President Franklin D. Roosevelt through his Executive Order 9066. From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps. Enacted in reaction to the Pearl Harbor attacks and the ensuing war, the incarceration of Japanese Americans is considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/bbbd0add-a8a2-4d18-afc2-136f3d7b1e51/WSNN+Promo+12.png History - 10 Internment Camps Map of 10 Japanese American internment camps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/bfb7b272-3e7e-4a8f-adb4-1f837841fe8d/Screen+Shot+2022-01-26+at+4.31.25+PM.png History - STIGMA AND SILENCE Japanese-Americans who were returning home faced discrimination and prejudice from the civilian population. The No-Nos were also subject to stigma within the Japanese American community and often kept silent about their history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/4579df99-4cc4-4c5e-8786-425ac79a3aeb/Loyalty+Q+3.png History Loyalty Questionnaire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/506165a0-5f58-468d-a343-e1254146c1f5/KeepMoving_000411.jpg History - Anti-Japanese Sentiment and Racism BEFORE AND AFTER THE WAR Amid racism, paranoia, and fears of sabotage, people labelled Japanese Americans as a danger and potential traitors. The FBI conducted searches, took belongings, arrested community leaders. After the war ended and the incarcarees returned home, many were subjects to post-war racism and faced discrimination and resentment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/558bcdf1-1117-405b-a06f-d8149fea2241/renunciant_Tule_000348.jpg History - The Renunciant Act of July 1944 When the Renunciation Act was passed in July 1944 to encourage Japanese American to renounce their citizenship and be deported to Japan, 5,589 people (over 97 percent of them Tule Lake inmates) expressed their resentment by giving up their U.S. citizenship and applying for "repatriation" to Japan. All the camps were closed at the end of 1945, except for Tule Lake’s “renunciants” who were going to be deported back to Japan. Most of the renunciants, over 4,262, regretted their decision to renounce their U.S. citizenship and petitioned to stay in the U.S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61ae5d9d34e97f53fee532bc/66ae14c0-a3de-44d0-93d4-b234f578af99/WSNN+Trailer+10.png History - Camp conditions were bad with overcrowding, curfews, unwarranted searches, restriction of work and recreational activities, and imprisonment of “troublemakers” in stockades The Hoshi-Dan Angry young men joined the “Hoshi-Dan”, a militaristic nationalist group aimed at preparing its members for a new life in Japan which ran military drills, protested against the WRA, and were against sympathizers. https://wesaidnono.com/faq daily 0.75 2022-02-02