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API Heritage Month Honoree

Group photo of Asm. Muratsuchi with other members and honorees
Asm. Muratsuchi escorting Kaitlyn & Kristen Tang on the Assembly Floor
Asm. Muratsuchi with Dr. Sahara's family on the Assembly Floor

I posthumously honored Dr. Kanji Sahara of Torrance at the California Legislature’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month ceremony this past week.

Kanji was the driving force behind the World War II Camp Memorial being built in Torrance to remember the over 120,000 Japanese Americans who were wrongfully incarcerated in internment camps during the war.

Representing Kanji is his daughter Judy and her husband Ben, and Kanji's grandchildren Kaitlyn, Kristin, and Nicole.