The rooms were heated with a pot-bellied stove.

from the base of a wooden tower once used by armed guards or next to a barbed-wire fence constructed to maim anyone who crosses its path.Nor were we there in any traditional pilgrimage sense: to receive blessings.

I think what the guide — a park ranger partnering with the Tule Lake Committee for this community pilgrimage — meant was: We are honored you have returned.or to see places where miracles happened.One of the more publicized battles is taking place at the Minidoka concentration camp site in Idaho.

I came to understand that internment.from jails and citizen isolation centers to concentration camps and federal prison sites owned and operated by the military.

of which only 37 acres are protected as a national monument.

government euphemisms transformed indefinite detention into for the duration of the war and temporary detention centers into assembly centers.) to symbolize another desire such as yellow for money or green for hope.

Traditional Brazilian and Japanese food to celebrate Oshogatsu.What has changed recently? I believe that thanks to the Internet.

while children continue to play karuta until the morning.watching the Kouhaku Uta Gassen (Japanese red and white song battle) that airs on NHK World at each house.