Alongside a special “Japanese Hall” episode for season 16 of Nebraska Public Media’s cultural series “Nebraska Stories”, several in-person events surrounding the story of the Japanese Hall and History Project on the Legacy of the Plains Museum campus will take place in Gering and Scottsbluff. The Japanese Hall exhibit will be open without charge for anyone attending events throughout the day. Below is the schedule for events at Legacy of the Plains Museum.

10:30 Julie Ushio presents Graves of Early Immigrants in the LPM Great Hall; afterwards she will lead a walking tour of Fairview Cemetery. (Transportation on your own to the cemetery.) Meet at the parking lot nearest the cemetery office.

1:30 p.m. Vickie Sakurada Schaepler will give a presentation “The Legacy of Japanese Immigrants in Nebraska including stories of WWII.”

2:45 p.m. Sharon Ishii-Jordan and Kim Hachiya will present on Japanese and Japanese American Incarceration Camps of WWII

4 p.m. Dedication of a Nebraska State Historical Society Historical Marker at Japanese Hall