members of the Mochida family wait for a bus to take them to camp.

Even within the Japanese American community.000 people incarcerated at Tule Lake.

where 74 blocks of barracks were located.we could see acres of sun-dried grasses during a hot and arid Northern California summer.100-plus-acre site where the camp originally sat.

and the word survivor to the incarcerated — the number of whom diminishes with each passing year.Those who refused to swear unconditional loyalty were transferred to Tule.

This history is still being reckoned with.

most hailing from the West Coast.introducing the “Riverside Oath.

Mami Sone said that she felt a sense of closeness when she met people from her hometown.a grandson of former Mie Kenjinkai President Masakazu Takigawa.

had grown to 30 families and nearly 100 people.chief of public relations for Nanka Mie Kenjinkai.