who served as secretary-treasurer at the time.

especially in identifying and locating many of the approximately 200 former UCLA students who were forced to leave the university before completing their studies because of the forced removal.He made the long drive to Manzanar each year so he could tell our students his story.

and we were all about to leave Manzanar.Tonais family was first incarcerated at the Santa Anita Assembly Center before being moved to the Amache concentration camp in Colorado.(Photo by Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee)The Manzanar Commitee mourns the passing of former Amache incarceree Minoru Min Tonai of Woodland Hills on Sept.

and I saw Min slowly making his way down to where I was.I remember telling him that it wasnt safe.

Well certainly miss his wit and penetrating analysis.

the Japanese American Cultural Community Center.My grandmother hid it in a pit during the war.

They put kokoro into their work.their spirit becomes our spirit too.

Is everything all right? I looked around the store.The smell of worn plaster and fresh bamboo hung in the cold air as I walked in.