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Anti-Asian Violence History

Resistance to State Violence Against Japanese Americans

https://50objects.org/object/the-demolished-monument/

Seventy eight years ago today — also a Sunday — James Hatsuaki Wakasa was shot to death at 7:30 p.m. at Topaz, Utah, by a guard tower sentry. After we posted a story about the killing, titled “The Demolished Monument,” we received a letter from an 86-year-old Ohio reader who was a child at Topaz at the time. He shared some memories that have haunted him for years.

50 Objects / Stories of the American Japanese Incarceration – Nancy Ukai Tweet
James Hatsuaki Wakasa - National Archives

See also, “The Demolished Monument”

James Hatsuaki Wakasa
and the erasure of memory

At the former Topaz concentration camp in Utah, there’s only dry grass where a concrete monument once stood, to mark where an innocent man was killed by a guard tower sentry. The man was walking his dog after dinner. HIs name was James Hatsuaki Wakasa.

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