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[youtube]8UeirfXORdM[/youtube] Today is the last day in Los Angeles. Yes, it played over the weekend and it looks to be an interesting film. Fishing in the concentration camps? It’s yet another angle to tell a story. There’s a hefty and detailed write up in the Rafu Shimpo. (Rafu – Manzanar Fishing Club)
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Japanese American National Museum are collecting Japanese American concentration camp stories from survivors. A three year project is underway to get more of these stories, and organizations everywhere have already begun this process. Perhaps it needs to be smaller in scale and some time of initiative for people to just do this at home is a better way to go. (Mainichi – Preserve JA Stories)
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Gordon Hirbayashi, a fighter, pioneer and was the last surviving trio of Japanese American Internment Camp protestors who fought the government on the Constitutional values of the internment and refusing to get imprisoned. All were overturned. The others Fred Korematsu and Minoru Yasui passed away in 05 and 96. He’s a great historical figure and this little bit of text does no justice to his life. There’s a rich history in his accomplishments. (New York Times – Gordon Hirabayashi)
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It’s Downer Saturday. This man, Akira Hoshizaki was about to get a Congressional Gold Medal for his service in World War II. It’s a long tale and journey for a man who was interned in a Concentration Camp, then went to serve for the US who imprisoned him and was to get a medal decades later. But he died just hours in his hotel room before the ceremony in Washington DC. His family got hold of the medal and put it in his hand. (Sun Times – Akira Hoshizaki)
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“’Drama in the Delta’ is a non-profit, educational 3D role-playing video game that puts the player into the experiences of two Arkansas concentration camps where the U.S. government interned 15,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II.” If there is an internet rule that says you can make a video game out of any topic or scenario, this certainly qualifies. Collaborators from the University of San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance and the San Diego Supercomputer Center are developing a video game called “Drama in the Delta”, which is intended to be an immersive first-player role-playing experience recreating what it was like to be an internee at the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas in 1944. When the game is completed in 2013, you’ll be able to play as a number of characters, including one of four teenaged Nisei girls. In our estimation, this is a pretty daring, ambitious and touchy construct for a video game. But you can actually judge for yourself, as the 292MB prototype is available right now for Windows-only download. In fact, we’d be interested to know what internees themselves think about this project and actual game play. (Chronicle of Higher Education – Arkansas Nisei RPG) And here is the official website: Drama in the Delta.
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