The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community will mark the 76th anniversary of the forced removal of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge during World War II on Friday, March 30, with a groundbreaking ceremony of the Exclusion Departure Deck and unveiling of several new National Park Service exhibits at the memorial site.

BIJAC, in partnership with the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association, the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum and the National Park Service is inviting the community to experience a series of free events to honor the first – and, ultimately, all 120,000 — Japanese Americans to be forcibly exiled from the West Coast during World War II.

The commemoration will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the memorial (4192 Eagle Harbor Drive), with the actual groundbreaking set to start at 11 a.m.

National Park Service representatives will be on-site to present and answer questions about their new outdoor interpretive exhibits, recently installed at the memorial site.

Related exhibits will be on display at the Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, offering free admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 30, the permanent “For the sake of the children” display.

And at 7 p.m. at BIMA, artist and author Mayumi Tsutakawa presents “The Pine and the Cherry: Japanese Americans in Washington.”