“Never again is now” is the refrain that echoed through the Puyallup Valley Japanese American Citizens League’s 2026 Day of Remembrance on Feb. 21.
The annual event honors the over 125,000 people of Japanese descent who were imprisoned due to their ethnicity during World War II, including on the event’s location at the Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup, the site of the Puyallup Assembly Center (PAC).
The PAC was the largest temporary American concentration camp in Washington state. Survivors who passed through these camps are now speaking out against current mass immigration detention as they reflect on the past…