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How to remember the Japanese incarceration, 80 years later
2 years, 10 months ago

How to remember the Japanese incarceration, 80 years later

LA Times  

Richard Murakami, 90, with photographs of life in the camps at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. “Seeing the testimony helped illustrate how he was a leader.” Richard Murakami with an installment in the Japanese American National Museum that displays soil and artifacts recovered from all the Japanese-American internment camps. At the Japanese American National Museum in Little …

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Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. WWII camp speak out
3 years, 9 months ago

Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. WWII camp speak out

LA Times  

For years, whenever Japanese Americans would get together after World War II, one question would come up: “Which camp were you in?” Like where you went to school, what you did for work, and whether you rooted for the Dodgers or the Giants, it was a form of small talk but probed at something deeper. Those who answered “Tule Lake” …

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75 Years Later: Japanese Man Recalls Bitter Internment Camps in US During World War II
4 years, 4 months ago

75 Years Later: Japanese Man Recalls Bitter Internment Camps in US During World War II

News 18  

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn’t be the last time he felt that way. He was sent to Tule Lake, a segregation center for those deemed disloyal, where he joined a group called “Hokoku …

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75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US
4 years, 4 months ago

75 years later, Japanese man recalls bitter internment in US

Associated Press  

TOKYO — When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I’ll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.” It wouldn’t be the last time he felt that way. He was sent to Tule Lake, a segregation center for those deemed disloyal, where he joined a group …

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For Japanese Americans, ‘The Terror’ is personal
5 years, 5 months ago

For Japanese Americans, ‘The Terror’ is personal

LA Times  

George Takei sat in his trailer on the set of “The Terror” dressed in his character’s charcoal-blue yukata as we traded histories in bittersweet shorthand. “We were a threat to national security because of the way we looked,” Takei said of the racist hysteria that led to President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, authorizing Japanese American incarceration. “They’re all gone.” 1 …

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