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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese Nationals along the West coast were forced from their homes.

Many never returned.

A new Cascade PBS series, Origins: Our Thousand Days, follows two women who were children when their families were taken away.

We spoke with the filmmaker, Andrew Inaba about why he made the series, and why so few returned to Western Washington.

As the Empire of Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

I was a child.

I had no idea what was happening in the world.

We're going somewhere tomorrow, Lily.

It will be like a vacation.

Those stories are actually pretty common of parents telling their children that they're going on vacation.

It seems like it's the easiest way to reconcile the leaving the home for an unknown duration of time.

It felt like a very pertinent story right now.

It felt like a story that was close to home, and one that everyone in the Pacific Northwest should know as part of our history.

Inaba says many never return to their homes after incarceration.

They didn't want to either come back to that, the pain of remembering what they had and what they now have lost.

And a lot of them just were just looking for a fresh start.

And they found that in eastern Washington and throughout the nation.

The series is part of Cascade PBS's Origins project, which awards grants to local filmmakers to tell a story about their community.

He pointed his rifle at me, and that scared me, and I ran all the way back to my barracks.

We'll continue our coverage for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a story on a longtime Seattle news anchor's memoir.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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