‘There’s our family name’: Sacred book honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII

June Aochi Berk, 89, stamps her mother’s and father’s names in a book of 125,284 people of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II. “Japanese Americans have always been seen as un-American or anti-American — a mass of people deemed a threat to national security, more than other Asian groups in the history of Asian America.” Berk, 89, was among the survivors who stamped the Ireichō on Saturday as museum officials unveiled the book to visitors. “They simply started over after the U.S. blamed us for a war we did not cause.” Spiritual leaders carry a sacred book at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Saturday. Takei also told Williams: “Everyone kind of knows me as George Takei — just put me as George Hosato Takei.” A group of spiritual leaders, survivors, family members and representatives at the Japanese American National Museum march in the procession, carrying sticks bearing camp names and soil samples from the sites.