Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT, 2nd Battalion. November 11, 1944

Source: National Archives (111-SC-196516)

The Alhambra Theatre in Sacramento.

Source: Sacramento Archives and Museum Collection Center (2001/ x-03/ 007)

Shiro and Asako Tokuno on their wedding day. Minnesota, February 17, 1945.

Source: Asako Tokuno

Asako Tokuno and her husband, Shiro. February 10, 1945.

Source: Asako Tokuno

Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .

Asako Tokuno, right, worked at the beauty parlor at Topaz Camp, where she was interned during the war.

Source: Asako Tokuno

Asako Tokuno, after the war, in her family's nursery

Source: Asako Tokuno

Asako Tokuno performs household chores. 1943. Tokuno was interned at the Topaz Camp near Delta, Utah.

Source: Asako Tokuno

With her pregnant sister-in-law due later in the month, Tokuno received eviction notice in August of 1945.

I would get this terrible feeling that people were watching, looking at me.

A woman listens to the radio in her boardinghouse room. January 1943. For those back home, the radio proved the best source for news on the war.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3- 038331-E)

Susumu Satow and Asako Tokuno recall life in the internment camps.

In Sacramento, soon after Order 9066 was issued, hand-lettered signs went up all over town, saying “Japs must go.”

At a newstand, a headline from the San Francisco Examiner reads: "Ouster Of All Japs In California Near!"

Source: National Archives (210-G1-A-36)

The Japanese-American owner of a grocery store in Oakland, CA, closed following evacuation orders hung a sign reading "I AM AN AMERICAN" the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. April 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0772)

Signing up for sugar and food rationing in Taos, New Mexico. February 1943.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USW3-019115-C)

Japanese-Americans evacuees at a control station in San Francisco. April 6, 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LOT 10617, vol. 2)

Japanese-American evacuees, under the watchful eye of U.S. soldiers, wait outside trains at Santa Anita Assembly Center. April 5, 1942.

Source: National Archives (WC-0780)

Under the watchful eye of the U.S. Army, Japanese-Americans are evacuated from Salinas, California. May 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF34-072513-D)

At the Sant Anita reception center, guards examine the bags of Japanese-American evacuees. April 1942.

Source: Library of Congress (LC-USF 34-72317-D)