Japanese internment memorial

The Japanese Internment Memorial made of bronze spanning 12 feet long shows the history from the beginning of the Japanese internment to the end of the internment.

The story starts from the left side of the sculpture.

On the top left, there are seven paragraphs describing the immigration before the war.

Right below the paragraphs, there are 26 Japanese family symbols.

The story begins right after the paragraphs and the symbols.

There are three lines of barbed wires running across the sculpture.

Beneath the barbed wires, there are mountains.

The very first thing we see at the beginning of the story is the Taiyo Maru N.Y.K. Line.

Next to the boat is what seems like an immigration office where 15 Japanese women are walking across a bridge from the office to the dock.

Right below we see a glimpse of the Japanese immigrant's lives.

In a one-room house, there are women and children in the house dining.

Their shoes are left outside as they enter the house.

Beside the house, we see men in overalls carrying shovels inside the back of a truck.

In the next section on the right, there are two cars.

One car sitting there with a man peaking in.

The other car delivering boxes of fruits.

The women pick and organize the fruits in a different set of boxes.

There is a tent where kids play and adults rest.

There is a farm where man is escaping the land and women picks the vegetables off the ground.

Above the farm, there are two sumo wrestlers wrestling as a woman and a child makes mochi next to the wrestlers.

As the sculpture goes on there are two men in trench coat tapping on a shoulder of a Japanese immigrant who is kneeled on the ground.

One of the two men in trench coat carries a badge.

The next piece of the sculpture shows a family burning the Japanese flag as the father is about to throw a doll in the fire.

Two buses and two cars are surrounded by Japanese immigrants who are packed and ready to leave.

The facial expression of the Japanese immigrants shows the misery.

At the end of the sculpture on the right side writes "Executive Order No. 9066" followed by the description of the order.

Frank D. Roosevelt's name appears on the bottom right of the description.

Below Roosevelt's name is another set of 26 family symbols.

On the narrow side of the sculpture says "INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY Living in the following Area:"

Followed by a list of areas and list of instructions.

Below the instructions is a map of the West side of America and the locations of the camps as well as a list of the camp's names.

On the other side of the sculpture starts with "HYSTERIA OF WAR" on the left side followed by four paragraphs below.

Below the writing another 26 family symbols.

On this side of the sculpture begins as the Japanese immigrants are getting dropped off from the Hern Pacific train to their campsites.

Here families and friends are saying their goodbyes as some are dropped off and some are taken to a different location.

There is an American soldier with a rifle twice the size of the other people on the sculpture.

Above the train shows small one-room shacks where the Japanese immigrants lived.

American soldiers with rifles point and guide the Japanese immigrants to their specific areas.

The Japanese immigrants in the camp are building buildings for themselves as American soldiers stand on a tower and monitor the Japanese immigrants.

There is a shack without walls named Mess 24 where the Japanese immigrants eat on bleachers.

To the right of Mess 24 is another tower where American soldiers monitor.

On the right, we see six Japanese soldiers.

The soldiers are wearing a uniform and a helmet as they held a rifle close.

They were huddled up near a fire where they make soup.

Above the soldiers, hundreds of crosses cover the field.

Four men salute to the American flag a man is carrying

Group of children is studying on their desks and drawing.

Another group of children is outside playing baseball and volleyball.

Right below we see the Lincoln Memorial and Americans huddled up around hundreds of people around a desk.

The last of the figures show two Japanese immigrants bowing with each other as another man packs their car and others waving goodbye inside the internment camp.

On the very right side of the sculpture titled "CAMP LIFE AND POST-WAR" followed by five paragraphs of description.

Below the description is the last set of 26 Japanese family symbols.