It was a transformational experience and I developed a passion for the study of psychology.

Sharon Yamato writes from Playa del Rey and can be reached at sharony360@gmail.The racist component to this forced detention also has not been overlooked by those of us once victimized as non-alien and alien enemies just because of the color of our skin.

I was shocked at how things had changed in the decades since Id last been there.there is an eerie similarity to the immediate construction of 16 euphemistically named assembly centers only weeks after EO 9066 was signed.With the passage of the Big Ugly Bill.

We watched as the targeting of immigrants.dedicated in 2002 by the Terminal Islanders Club.

a whopping $45 billion will be poured into detention facilities.

I was introduced to Susan Loewenberg.and gave her best wishes to the new queen.

During the 83rd annual Nisei Week Coronation on Aug.Casey Mariko Kuramoto from the Orange County Nikkei Coordinating Council.

it signifies a place for storytelling.especially across generations.