• Akemi Yamane and Kiyoshi Ito, two members of the Wakasa Committee beside the Wakasa Memorial at Topaz.

    TOPAZ SURVIVORS KIYOSHI & AKEMI INA

  • Survivors and descendants of the U.S. concentration camps building the Wakasa Spirit Stone with artist Yoshinori Asai.

    ARTIST YOSHI ASAI

  • The Wakasa Spirit Stone at the spot where James Hatsuaki Wakasa was killed at Topaz.

    TOPAZ UTAH

  • Members of the Wakasa Memorial Committee around the Wakasa Memorial.

    81ST ANNIVERSARY

  • The Wakasa Spirit Stone in front of Castle Rock at Tule Lake.

    TULE LAKE

  • Wakasa Spirit Stone at the site where Shoichi Okamoto was shot and killed at Tule Lake.

    SHOICHI JAMES OKAMOTO

  • The hanging hankos hold people's remembrances as they drape across the Wakasa Spirit Stone.

    WAKASA HANKO

  • Nancy Ukai runs through the history of the Wakasa Memorial at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles Ca.

    NANCY UKAI AT JANM

  • Wakasa Committee T shirt design.

    WHO OWNS OUR PAST

  • Historian and artist Patrick Hayashi participating in the building of the Wakasa Spirit Stone.

    TOPAZ SURVIVOR PATRICK HAYASHI

  • A group of people attend the opening of the Wakasa Spirit Stone exhibit at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

    SAN FRANCISCO ASIAN ART MUSEUM

San Francisco Asian Art Museum | Tree of Remembrance

The Wakasa Spirit Stone exhibit opened at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum on February 20, 2025, honoring the resilience of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII.

Murder in the High Desert by Emiko Omori

Spirit Rock by Claudia Katayanagi