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June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military order from the U.S ...
The Aochis were among the nearly 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had been forcibly removed from their West Coast homes and held in desolate inland locations under Executive Order 9066, issued ...
Susan Hayase and Tom Izu fell in love while fighting for Japanese American reparations. “Tom was giving a speech, and he’s clutching the lectern and talking really fast,” Hayase recalled with a laugh.
The thing to remember is the Mukai family never left. At least not voluntarily. In the 1920s, Tokisaburo Mukai and his picture bride Hifuko Wada set up shop at a general store on the corner of ...
Within two months, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had signed Executive Order 9066, resulting in the mass incarceration of about 122,000 men, women and children of Japanese descent.
(THE CONVERSATION) June Aochi Berk, now 92 years old, remembers the trepidation and fear she felt 80 years ago on Jan. 2, 1945. On that date, Berk and her family members were released by military ...