Richard Barthelmess —a common practice at the time.

—Sharon Yamato writes from Playa del Rey and can be reached at sharony360@gmail.Its difficult to know how many residents or visitors know about the detention center once populated on this prominent cultural site.

ongoing efforts at offering educational information regarding this important incarceration site are likely to go on for years.After being asked to return there in 2017 after 75 years.feel and touch the ground where our ancestors were once imprisoned.

They are especially important because many who live around them now have little or no knowledge that their very own communities were utilized as massive detention centers.Not only does it include a beautifully constructed wall of names.

Standing in the cavernous open-beam structure.

they were described by many as much worse than the 10 permanent camps.who is also a photographer who has been documenting and preserving the stories from atomic bomb survivors for the benefit of future generations.

1945 —the only times nuclear weapons have been used during warfareWriter-director Takeshi Kitano stars as Yamamoto.

Joy Nakagawa and James Shigeta.through his uniquely poetic yet brutal lens.