Japanese-Americans Headed To Little Rock For Conference
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Hundreds of people are expected at a reunion
this week of Japanese-Americans who were forcibly relocated to
Arkansas internment camps at Rohwer and Jerome during World War
Two.
The four-day Japanese-American Life Interrupted National
Conference begins Thursday in Little Rock. An exhibit on the camps
will be featured at the Statehouse Convention Center.
The meeting is the first time in the six decades since the war
that a major Arkansas event has paid tribute to the history of the
two southeast Arkansas camps.
At least 900 people, including camp survivors, family members
and historians from 36 states and Japan, have registered to attend.
