JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE
OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA

September 2024

Sea History Article: Roy Hattori and the Japanese American Abalone Fishery of Monterey Bay

This past spring, Tim Thomas had the opportunity to work with a group of students in an environmental history class from Middlebury College, led by Professor Richard King. The class spent time working closely with Tim in the Monterey JACL Heritage Center on variety of different projects, including developing a digital tour of the museum. […]

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My Two and a Half Years Behind Barbed Wire During WWII in the United States

Please join us for a special presentation by Yukio Shimomura on Saturday, September 21st at 12:00pm at The Carmel Foundation. Yukio Shimomura will be sharing his family’s experience during the 1940’s when World War II started and how the Executive Order 9066 affected his family. They left San Francisco and entered the incarceration camps at

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