FREE

Please join us for a free screening of Voices Behind Barbed Wire: Stories of O‘ahu featuring personal stories about Japanese American World War II incarceration in Hawai‘i in the Tateuchi Democracy Forum. Executive Producer Carole Hayashino will be on hand to talk about the making of the film and its historical relevance today. This screening is co-hosted hosted by JANM and the Japanese American Confinement Sites Consortium and sponsored by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i.

Voices Behind Barbed Wire, explores the personal stories of Japanese Americans living on O‘ahu, from their initial detention to their transfer and wrongful incarceration in American concentrations camps at Sand Island, Honouliuli, and in far-away places like New Mexico, Arkansas, and Arizona. While the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II has been well documented on the US mainland, new information about American concentration camps and untold stories continue to emerge from Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i who endured this dark chapter of history. The film also includes an archeological journey through the World War II incarceration sites on O‘ahu. Also, the Honouliuli National Monument is featured in the movie with a focus on the modern day relevance of civil liberties.