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Nikkei Community Internship's 10th Anniversary!

Nisei Diploma Project


Published: July 27, 2011 Modified: April 11, 2025

NCI 2005 interns attend a Nisei Diploma Project Ceremony, a JCCCNC project in which Nisei students whose educations and graduations were interrupted by World War II incarceration, were given honorary degrees by their colleges.  Guest speaker, California State Assemblyman Warren Furutani speaks, "[This] is an opportunity for our state to honor Americans of Japanese descent who suffered a significant injustice."


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Nikkei Community Internship's 10th Anniversary!
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