Sakura Square
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Denver, Colorado
Sakura Square (
Ralph L. Carr, Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943, Minoru Yasui, a Japanese-American lawyer, and Yoshitaka Tamai (1900–1983), a Buddhist priest who lived in Denver. Sakura Square also has a small Japanese garden
, and it serves as the entrance to the 20-story Tamai Tower apartment building that occupies most of the block. There are several shops and restaurants in the ground and first floors of the apartment building.
Bust of Governor Carr
Ralph L. Carr
in Sakura SquareDenver's Japanese-American community installed the bust of former
period of their internment
. At the time, Governor Carr was the only elected official in the United States to publicly apologize to the Japanese Americans for their internment.
Cherry Blossom Festival
Denver's annual Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in late June in and around Sakura Square and the Tri-State/Denver Buddhist Temple.bon odori dance is held on the street, with many participants dressing in yukata or other traditional Japanese attire.
See also
- Japantown
- Sakura Park
- Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
- Day of Remembrance (Japanese Americans)
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
- Empty Chair Memorial
- Fred Korematsu Day
- Go for Broke Monument
- Harada House
- Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
- National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court
References
- ^ "Cherry Blossom Festival". Tri-State/Denver Buddhist Temple. Archived from the original on 2006-06-15.
External links
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