Superintendent Christine Ogura is bursting with ideas to tell the history of Hawaii’s Honouliuli National Historic Site. It was a camp that held hundreds of Hawaii Japanese Americans during World War II. nwasianweekly.com/2025/09/honoul…

Gentrification and rising rents are changing the nature of Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, which was home to many Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at Heart Mountain. A group of local businesses are fighting back. lapublicpress.org/2025/09/la-jap…

.NHK WORLD News came to our July pilgrimage and captured the work of Sam Mihara, the NEH Jefferson Lecturer for this year. Incarcerated as a child at Heart Mountain, Sam's new career is speaking about the Japanese American incarceration. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…

Thanks to the Wyoming Semiquincentennial Planning Task Force, we have a $25,000 grant to bring David Ono's Defining Courage to our July 2026 Pilgrimage. Thanks to David, Ann Burroughs of JANM and our partners in Wyoming for making this happen. heartmountain.org/grant-will-bri…

It's been great to host Christine Ogura, the superintendent of the Honouliuli National Historic Site in Hawaii. We're sharing information and ideas about how to tell the story of the Japanese American incarceration in Hawaii and Wyoming.

Imagine a future where we fix problems instead of fighting about who caused them.

A new National Park Service grant will enable us to create educational programming in collaboration with four Rocky Mountain confinement sites. We'll conduct events and teacher workshops and launch our new LINC database. See more here: heartmountain.org/major-nps-gran…

Bipartisanship and the ability to work out differences respectfully is at the heart of our Mineta-Simpson Institute. We’re grateful for the support of Sen. John Barrasso and his staff in getting the JACE Act passed. thehill.com/homenews/house…

Board member and Heart Mountain legend Takashi Hoshizaki turns 100 on October 3. We're honoring his legacy of service to the nation and Japanese American community with this birthday campaign. See more here: heartmountain.org/a-century-of-t…

Today’s ICE raids look disturbingly familiar to Mary Murakami, who was 14 when she and her family were forced from their homes and incarcerated without due process in the Topaz prison camp in Utah. npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-…

Linda Yamamoto Horikawa was two years old when her family was forced from their home in Cupertino and into Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. It took a request from an 11-year-old neighbor to share her story in an award-winning podcast. Hear it here: kpbs.org/news/education…

Congratulations to our friends at Minidoka for starting their project to restore two barracks and preserve the memory of what happened there during World War II. ktvb.com/article/news/l…

Rock Springs, WY, is coming to grips with its history, which includes the 1885 massacre of Chinese immigrants. A new statue will mark the massacre's 140th anniversary. npr.org/2025/09/28/nx-…

Haruka Takaku, our Japan Outreach Initiative coordinator, leads multiple sessions on Japanese culture at our site. In Milwaukee, residents there are learning more from their new JOI coordinator. It's a great program. milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/japan…

Sam Mihara is unstoppable. On Monday, he spoke to 600 students at the Bullis School in Potomac, Md., about his experiences as a child incarceree at Heart Mountain. He's spoken in person to more than 110,000 people.

The federal government is shut down, but we aren’t. We’re an independent organization, because we didn’t want the government that imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans to tell our story. That also means we stay open when Congress can’t pass a budget. heartmountain.org

Join us to celebrate Takashi Hoshizaki's 100th birthday! He's the sole surviving Heart Mountain draft resister and a consistent fighter for civil rights. We're raising $100,000 for our continued operations during the month of October in honor of his legacy heartmountain.org/a-century-of-t…

We're going to develop an exhibit in our restored root cellar thanks to a new grant from the National Park Service. It will allow us to celebrate the agricultural legacy of the incarcerated Heart Mountain farmers and enhance our educational programming. heartmountain.org/new-grant-will…

Barbara Uriu’s father, Kazuo, was incarcerated at Heart Mountain and remained in Wyoming to become one of the state’s most influential farmers. Barbara was a founding HMWF board member. She caught up with Aura Sunada Newlin at the Western Museums Assn conference in Reno.

Last week was a landmark for us. Sam Mihara presented his NEH Jefferson Lecture at the Japanese Information and Cultural Center, spoke to the BADC and we celebrated the 100th birthday of board member Takashi Hoshizaki, the sole remaining Heart Mountain draft resister.