Nidoti Nai Yoni Memorial

“Let It Not Happen Again”

Built to commemorate the Japanese Internment and Exclusion during World War II, the Timber Framers Guild built a pavilion and a matched pair of entrance gates for the Memorial Park. The gates were the subject of a workshop on traditional Japanese joinery and tools. Another workshop covered Japanese traditional framing with layout from centerlines.

Local Partner
Bainbridge Island Japanese–American Community

Other Partners/sponsors
Bainbridge Island WWII Nikkei Internment and Exclusion Memorial Committee of BIJAC
Interfaith

Local Partner Contact
Clarence Moriwaki

Local hero
John Buday

Notable aspects
Japanese-influenced timber framing. Workshop: traditional Japanese joinery, tools, and layout from centerlines.

In-kind donations
Tom Salisbury, North Kitsap/Bainbridge Is. Interfaith Council (food), American Legion #172 (their hall), Bainbridge-Ometepe Sister Islands Assn. (food)

TFG leaders
John Buday, Carlos Sosa, Mike Laine, James Wiester

News

• Internment Memorial Helps Healing on Bainbridge / Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Northwest Asian Weekly, 26 Jan 2007

Tube

• Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial / Channel 2
• Dedication ceremony / Sonny Kwan

Photographer
Tom Salisbury, John Buday, Joel McCarty

Narrative
Scantlings 122, 126