(Photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu Shimpo)By MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS.

standing in his Japanese garden last Saturday.and heading straight for his house.

Shade River-Roberts and Nathaniel Navarro lift a stone bridge to remove it from Nishios garden on Feb.muscle and elbow grease included her daughter Lily and son Milo.The structure of the house is burnt and destroyed.

bridges and garden ornaments were carefully disassembled and loaded into a rented truck for transport to their current home in nearby Hastings Ranch.After the stone lanterns were safely removed to their temporary home last weekend.

A Go Fund Me page was set up by Jenny Penner to help the Nishios.

The Nishios are currently living in a home his father purchased many years ago in another neighborhood of PasadenaI remember hearing something about putting some Japanese into prisons.

Sam MiharaDuring Sam Miharas first talk about the Japanese American incarceration to a group of Justice Department lawyers.That began a second career for Mihara.

Previous Jefferson Lecturers include playwright Arthur Miller.an honor given by NEH to some of the nations leading figures in the humanities.