Black paint was used to cover the art exhibit which shows landmark Japanese businesses and a mural memorializing the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
SEATTLE — Many in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District are upset after somebody vandalized a public art exhibit focused on Japanese American history. The damage was discovered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
“This is the worst that I’ve seen it ever,” said Jeff Liang. “Of just trying to literally cover our history.”
Liang is the interim director for the CID Business Improvement Area, a nonprofit focused on advocating for the historic neighborhood. He said his staff discovered vandalism in “Nihonmachi
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