Pacific Nw Conference To Open

An expert on the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians will help launch a Washington State University conference on settlement in the Pacific Northwest this Friday.

Tetsuden Kashima, an Asian American Studies scholar at the University of Washington, will compare the wartime incarcerations of Japanese in the United States and Canada at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Todd Hall 276.

The lecture marks the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II and the release from concentration and relocation camps of 120,000 Japanese-Americans and 22,000 Japanese-Canadians.

Kashima’s talk is the keynote lecture for the annual American Studies Summer Institute Conference, “Your Place or Mine?: Settlement and Resettlement in the Greater Pacific Northwest.” The sessions, held Friday and Saturday in the Bundy Reading Room of Avery Hall, are free and open to the public. For more information, call 335-1560.