The city of Torrance is hosting a fundraiser Wednesday night for a proposed Japanese American memorial wall, which is to honor those who were forced from their homes about 80 years ago and held in wartime camps across the United States.

Black granite walls engraved with over 150,000 names of interned Japanese Americans will comprise the WWII Camp Wall at Columbia Park, the nation's first such memorial.

The project's visionary is the late Kanji Sahara, whose family was incarcerated at a Santa Anita camp. His name will be on one of the 10 walls of the memorial – each wall represents a World War II War Relocation Authority camp.

Nancy Hayata now leads the WWII Camp Wall project following the death of Sahara. She said the wall will run along a Prairie Avenue pathway in the park. "So you c

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