LOS ANGELES — Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. This photo provided by the Japanese American National Museum shows the Ireichō, a book which lists the names of the more than 125,000 people who were detained …
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, …
