Japanese American Servicemen's Memorial

Eighteen names are cut into this stone, young men from Utah's Japanese American community who died in World War II. Their families raised the memorial in 1947, calling them loyal sons — a word that carries an ache, because the country they died for was, in those same years, imprisoning Japanese Americans behind wire, many of them at Topaz in Utah's west desert. These men served while their own people were incarcerated. The memorial stands in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, in the Avenues, where the community that grieved them still tends the names.

What the plaque says

In grateful remembrance of our loyal sons who gave their lives serving our country in World War Two Roy Ikeda · Shigeru Mori · Takeo Fujino · Edward Ogawa · Noboru Miyoko · John Akimoto · Mitsuru Miyoko · Victor Akimoto · Ben Masaoka · Shiro Asahina · Robert Tendo · Kazuo Mitani · Umos Hirahara · Togo Sugiyama · Taka Aklokazaki · Haruto Moriguchi · Isamu Matsukawa · M. Frank Shigemura Erected by Japanese American Servicemen's Family League Salt Lake City, Utah 1947

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ensign Peak — 1.4 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Salt Lake City — 1.7 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 1.8 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Red Butte Garden — 2.1 mi
  A 100-acre botanical garden with panoramic valley views

More markers nearby

• Salt Lake City Cemetery Gold Star Mothers Memorial — 0.3 mi
• Lindsey Gardens - First Playground — 0.3 mi
• G.A.R. Monument — 0.4 mi
• Ladies' Literary Club Building — 0.9 mi