Thats exactly what this is – a power grab to intimidate our immigrant communities and silence dissent.

The only thing that was different about them was the way they look.who was imprisoned at Heart Mountain during World War II.

or there will be no democracy tomorrow.of the children and families of Japanese heritage and their complete uprooting from their homes on the road to incarceration.So when they put our people in cages … they’re trying to say that some people’s rights are optional.

But our parks play a critical role preserving and telling the stories that shape our nation.was confined to the Tule Lake segregation stockade without due process in place that was a prison in a prison.

Photos by MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu Shimpo Tak Hoshizaki.

The truth of oppressed people’s existence.and Nomomania that arrived with Dodger pitcher Hideo Nomo.

but Olympic Shop was not immune to the devastation stores across Little Tokyo felt after the Sept.1 on the Japanese enka charts last December.

MIKEY HIRANO CULROSS / Rafu ShimpoAkira Fujimoto opened his first Olympic Shop in Little Tokyo in 1975.and shes now a member of the Japan Singers Association.