[3] Events in numerous U.S. states, especially in the West Coast, are held on or near February 19, the day in 1942 that Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, requiring internment of all Americans of Japanese ancestry.

[4] Areas where people of Japanese descent in the U.S. were forced to relocate included Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arkansas, and Idaho.

[3] In 2022, President Joe Biden issued a presidential proclamation declaring February 19, 2022, as the national Day of Remembrance of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II.

General practices and activities include a day of commemoration, remembering those affected by Executive Order 9066 and a brief history of the events of Japanese internment.

It can also include panel discussions, speeches, presentations, art walks, film observance, general activism and firsthand accounts.

Co-sponsors included thirty churches, veterans' groups, and other social organizations, as well as the national Japanese American Citizens League (JACL).

Although initially resistant, the board of the Western Washington Fair ultimately voted unanimously to allow the event to use the fairgrounds free of charge.

The National Guard provided several large trucks similar to those used in 1942 to lead a caravan from Sicks' Stadium in Seattle to Puyallup, replicating the route taken by some of the internees.

At the 2008 ceremony, called The Long Journey Home, the university granted honorary baccalaureate degrees to all 449 of their former Japanese American students who had been affected by Executive Order 9066.

[16] In addition to this mini exhibit, The Portland Japanese Citizens Americans League is known to hold Day of Remembrance events.

[17] In 1986 Governor George Deukmejian declared February 19, 1986, to be a Day of Remembrance in California, the first DOR designation by the state of California.,[18] two and a half years before the "redress bill" (Civil Liberties Act of 1988) was signed on August 10, 1988.

The event consisted of speakers such as the United States Representative Mike Honda who recognized February 19 as a day to educate people on the injustices of World War II, University of Utah Professor Haruko Moriyasu as well as the presentation of the 30 minute film Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray, A film based on Toyo Miyatake's secret photography at the Manzanar internment camp.

both involved dialogue about the grave concern of civil rights violations faced by people of Japanese descent but the more broad impact and repercussions of actions that lead to such events.

February 14, 2014, the Juneau-Douglas City Museum displayed "The Empty Chair: The Forced Removal and Relocation of Juneau's Japanese, 1941-1951".