senior editor at LAist (formerly KPCC) in Pasadena.

he was the oldest of four children.He returned to Japan many times thereafter.

for helping me to get this far.and her younger sister Yasuko made more money in three months of internship as a pharmacy student than I made in a whole year as a clerk typist … I made the great decision to go back to school.the family was transferred to Tule Lake.

despite missing almost a semester because she had developed cardiac beriberi She attended Hiroshima Jyogakuin Senior High School from 1950 to 1953.I believe she knew my mother had passed away when I was 14.

She also worked as a statistician-typist at Wilson Paper Company in Times Square.

having merged with another school in the area) when the GHS students were visiting.OAKLAND – The Crystal City Pilgrimage Committee.

This session will also explore prisoner and migrant solidarity rights work happening across the country and in Texas.With the current administrations attempts to whitewash our countrys history.

Crystal City was unique as the only large-scale detention facility that held German and Italian nationals in addition to Japanese.Pilgrimage attendees will include incarceration survivors of Japanese and German ancestry.