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Image credit: Erin Shigaki installed this wheat paste mural in Seattle’s historic Nihonmachi in honor of the 2019 Day of Remembrance. Photo courtesy of Eugene Tagawa & Densho. Click the picture to learn more.

Every year, St. Peter’s commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast in February 1942. St. Peter’s closed for the duration of the internment as its members were incarcerated in desolate camps miles from home, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans.

This year, St. Peter’s and the Circles of Color invite the diocese and larger community into a weekend of listening, reflection, and conversation dedicated to the throughline of this particular history, the realities of our sociopolitical present, and what faithful resistance and solidarity may look like in our shared future.

Image credit: Behind Barbed Wire. Courtesy of the Tokuda Family Collection, Densho.

February 8 | Washington State Fairgrounds, Puyallup

Join St. Peter’s and the Circles of Color for the annual Day of Remembrance event hosted by local Japanese American community groups, plus lunch and conversation after.

February 9, 10:30 am | St. Peter’s, Seattle

Join St. Peter’s for its annual Executive Order 9066 commemoration service, Japanese lunch and community conversation, plus a parish history tour facilitated by members of St. Peter’s historic families.

The Rev. Irene Tanabe will preside for Sunday’s liturgy with various St. Peter’s members and friends contributing reflections, music, and dance including artist Erin Shigaki, flautist Hanz Araki, and Butoh dancer Joan Laage

Service Livestream

Watch the service or recording below. Service bulletin and Threads of Remembrance booklets will be posted as PDFs on this page.

Re-membering History

This is the introduction to an interview series with St. Peter’s parishioners, done in 2018. You can listen to the rest of these interviews on St. Peter’s website.

Other Resources

  • Guilty By Reason of Race: 1972 CBS Documentary
  • The Sunday Before: 1945 book of sermons given along the West Coast in 1942. See Ch. 7, pg 44-49 for Fr. John Yamazaki’s sermon at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. Research is ongoing regarding the sermon given by Bishop Reifsnider at St. Peter’s.

Other Community Events

Visit St. Peter’s Website for a list of additional ways to engage this history.

Executive Order 9066 Weekend of Remembrance: Never Again Is Now

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