Friends of Mukai will mark the 76th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066 with a Remembrance Day Ceremony at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Approximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese descent, both immigrants and American citizens, were adversely affected by that order. They were vilified and threatened.

Most lost homes, businesses, most of their treasured family keepsakes, and in many cases, connections to their community when they were imprisoned in 10 U.S. concentration camps. The wounds caused by this treatment were deep and still remain.

During the ceremony, Joe Okimoto will speak of his experience in the Poston camp with his family. Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma will present a short reflection entitled “A Light at the Crossroads,” using poetry and story to explore how events like the internment reverberate across time and our ideas of identity.

Okimoto is the first child born on American soil of immigrant Japanese Christian missionary parents. As a child, he and his family were interned in a camp in Poston, Arizona, for three years, a result of Executive order 9066. He is a retired psychiatrist and a Friends of Mukai board member.

Pruiksma is an author, poet, translator, magician, musician and lover of life. Born in Seattle, he has lived and worked in Tamil Nadu, India, and Oaxaca, Mexico. His books include “Give, Eat, and Live; Poems of Avvaiyar, and Body and Earth: Notes from a Conversation,” written with the south Indian artist C.F. John. He was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship to support his new translation of the most important work of poetry and philosophy in the Tamil language, “Tirukkural.”

The farmstead, at 18017 107th Ave. SW, will be open to welcome visitors from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

— By Helen Meeker