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Article: Ruth Asawa Offers Personal Insight With Bronze Bas-Relief
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- March 18, 1994
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Bobbie Lee
AsianWeek
03-18-1994
Ruth Asawa Offers Personal Insight With Bronze Bas-Relief.
By Bobbie Lee
SAN JOSE (CA) -- Heart and soul went into the work of the bronze bas-relief sculpture depicting the history of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Sculpted by Ruth Asawa, the two-sided, 5-feet-by-14-feet Japanese American Internment Memorial, located at the federal building on South First Street in San Jose, was unveiled March 5.
On hand for the ceremony were Mayor Susan Hammer; Congressman Norman Mineta (D-San Jose); Richard Tanaka, chair of the San Jose Commission on the Internment of Local Japanese Americans; and former internee Fred Korematsu.
"The memorial ...
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