A dedication ceremony was held in Washington on Thursday for a memorial built near the U.S. Capitol in honor of the sacrifices made by Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
About 1,000 Japanese-Americans from all over the United States attended the ceremony for the memorial, built on a triangle of federal land in the shadow of the Capitol building.
Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta was among the participants. He and his family was among the 120,000 Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps by the U.S. government during the war.
The memorial features a granite wall inscribed with a brief history of Japanese immigrants, cherry trees and a sculpture of two bronze Japanese cranes entwined in barbed wire that are trying to break free.