Modern Bellevue and Bellevue Square in Washington state were built on lands farmed by the Japanese community for decades before anti-Japanese discrimination and exclusion forced Bellevue's Nikkei community from their lands, the majority of which were developed into retail and residential neighborhoods during their exclusion and incarceration.

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We the undersigned call on Frederick Kemper Freeman Jr., CEO of Kemper Development Company which built and operates Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place, and Lincoln Square, and grandson of Miller Freeman who was a driving force in anti-Japanese discrimination, to work with the Japanese-American community (facilitated by the Japan-America Society of the State of Washington: https://jassw.org/ to establish a physical memorial to the Bellevue Japanese community's sacrifices of liberty, livelihood, and land which were taken to create the spaces that others enjoy and profit from today. This physical memorial will serve as a an acknowledgement and link to Bellevue’s past, connecting the Nisei and Shin-Nisei communities that were separated by the era of Japanese exclusion and helping to heal the historical trauma which still echoes today.