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Past As Prologue: ‘What Is An American?’ Asks A Soldier From Pasco Whose Family Was Interned

By NWPB News January 1, 2021

Yamauchi’s family settled in Pasco in 1907. His parents, Harry and Chieka Yamauchi, came to the Tri Cities with their oldest daughter, Lou and had a total of nine children.

In this installment of the "Past as Prologue" series comes the story of a U.S. soldier, Sgt. George Yamauchi , from Pasco. He asked in 1943: 'What is an American?' Yamauchi penned the question in the local newspaper after his family was persecuted. The question defining who is an American is as relevant today as it was then. Read More

California Lawmakers Expected To Apologize For U.S. Internment Of Japanese Americans

By NPR News February 21, 2020

During a visit to the California Museum in Sacramento, Les Ouchida holds a 1943 photo of himself (front row center) and his siblings taken at the internment camp in Jerome, Ark., that his family was moved to from their home near Sacramento in 1942. CREDIT: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

The bill's sponsor says he was "disturbed by the striking parallels" between the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and current U.S. immigration policy. Continue Reading California Lawmakers Expected To Read More

Musician Kishi Bashi Uses The History Of Japanese Internment To Explore America Today

By NPR News May 28, 2019

To make his latest album, Omoiyari, the Japanese-American artist decided to turn to the past. He visited Japanese internment camps and made music inspired by the stories he found there. Continue Reading Musician Read More

September Focus: The Internment Of Japanese-Americans

By Gillian Coldsnow September 1, 2018

San Bruno, CA, 29 April 1942: This assembly center has been open for two days. Bus-load after bus-load of evacuated persons of Japanese ancestry are arriving on this day after going through the necessary procedures, they are guided to the quarters assigned to them in the barracks. CREDIT: DOROTHEA LANGE/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Every September more than a million people go to the Washington State Fair -- oblivious that the Puyallup fairgrounds site was where people of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and incarcerated during WWII. Continue Reading September Focus: The Internment Read More