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Heart Mountain press releases provide updates on upcoming events, new exhibits, and news from the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and Interpretive Center; for high-resolution archival and contemporary images, visit the Media Kit or contact info@heartmountain.org, and for news from the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium (JACSC), click here—recent and past press releases are available below.
January 10, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation expresses sadness on the passing of President Jimmy Carter, a longtime supporter who called his signing of a 1980 law creating a commission to study the Japanese American incarceration “one of the most meaningful and important accomplishments of my presidency.” Carter authorized the creation of the Commission on the Wartime […]
January 10, 2025
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation will conduct a series of Japanese cultural events as part of its winter program series starting January 25 and led by Haruka Takaku, our Japan Outreach Initiative Coordinator. The program will be a Japanese New Year and mochi tasting presentation that will start at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 25 in […]
January 9, 2025
During Sam Mihara’s first talk about the Japanese American incarceration to a group of Justice Department lawyers, only three had heard of Fred Korematsu, the civil rights icon who unsuccessfully challenged his incarceration to the Supreme Court in 1944. That began a second career for Mihara, a former Boeing Co. rocket scientist who had been […]
January 9, 2025
Author, historian and law professor Eric Muller, who curated the permanent exhibit at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, will receive the LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award during the Heart Mountain Pilgrimage on Saturday, July 27. The award is named after LaDonna Zall, who watched the last train carrying incarcerees leave Heart Mountain on November 10, […]
January 9, 2025
The National Park Service has awarded an $851,826 grant to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to continue restoring the historic root cellar built to store produce grown by incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. Hidden beneath the wooden air vents that can be seen standing akilter near farmland where the Heart Mountain camp once stood, […]
January 9, 2025
Actor Tamlyn Tomita, a descendant of Heart Mountain incarcerees, will lead a presentation of Chay Yew’s play, Question 27, Question 28, about the experiences of the influential women who endured the incarceration of 125,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. The presentation will take place at 9 a.m., Friday, July 26, at the Wynona Thompson Auditorium at […]
June 20, 2024
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation mourns the passing of Karen “Kiwi” Burch, a member of the Albright-Marshall family that received the LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award for the support they provided to their Japanese American neighbors in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as J-Flats during the war. A descendant of George Washington Albright, a former enslaved […]
June 20, 2024
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation congratulates its board chair, Shirley Ann Higuchi, on her election as the first Asian American president-elect of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC). The 152-year-old BADC aims to promote civility, collegiality and justice in the Washington, DC, legal community. Its members include lawyers from some of the most […]
June 20, 2024
William Iyeo Higuchi, who was incarcerated as an 11-year-old boy from San Jose at Heart Mountain and who became a pioneer in pharmaceutical sciences, died Friday, May 10, at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 93. Born in San Jose, California, on March 16, 1931, Higuchi and his family were forced from […]
June 20, 2024
Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated as a child in Heart Mountain during World War II, will join Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin for two presentations Friday, May 3, at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, Texas. They will discuss the incarceration of 125,000 people of Japanese […]
April 30, 2024
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April 22, 2024
The Go For Broke Spirit: Portraits of Courage, an exhibit of portraits of Japanese American World War II veterans by photographer Shane Sato, will open Wednesday, April 24, at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center. California-based Sato has spent much of the last 20 years photographing the surviving members of the all-Japanese American 100th/442nd Regimental Combat […]
