05.12.08
University of Washington awards honorary degrees May 18 to Japanese American students incarcerated during World War II
On May 18, the University of Washington will be honoring those Japanese-American students who were obligated to depart on their studies on 1942 during their imprisonment. The ceremony will be entitled “The Long Journey Home: Honoring UW Nikkei Students from 1941-42.”
They are doing this for the students to learn that this should never happen again. The speaker will be Norman Mineta who was a former Secretary of Transportation; he was also imprisoned at that time and later on became a highest ranking Japanese-American politician.