SANTA ANA : Japanese Internment Topic of College Talk
The film “Days of Waiting,” on the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II, will be shown during a talk at Rancho Santiago College today from noon to 1:30 p.m.
In “Days of Waiting,” Steven Okazaki presents a biography of Estelle Peck Ishigo, whose refusal to be separated from her Asian husband made her one of the few Caucasians interned with the Japanese-Americans at Heart Mountain, Wyo., during the war.
The film won an Academy Award in 1991 for short documentary. Audrey Yamagata-Noji, an assistant dean of student services, and art professor Carol Miura are presenting the film as part of this week’s 50th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans. The order was signed on Feb. 19, 1942.
Miura is also presenting her artworks on the internment.
Students and the public are invited to bring brown-bag lunches for the talk and the showing in Room U-204 in the student union. Admission is free.
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