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Mar. 16, 2022 - Japanese Americans in WA reflect on WWII
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Life in incarceration: Japanese Americans in WA reflect on WWII.
March marks 80 years since the U.S. issued an exclusion order that forced Japanese Americans from their Bainbridge Island homes. Today, Washingtonians look back on that time.
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Mar. 16, 2022 - Japanese Americans in WA reflect on WWII
3/16/2022 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
March marks 80 years since the U.S. issued an exclusion order that forced Japanese Americans from their Bainbridge Island homes. Today, Washingtonians look back on that time.
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(dramatic music) March 24th marks 80 years, since the US issued an exclusion order that forced Japanese-Americans from their Bainbridge Island homes.
Many Japanese-Americans were first sent to temporary detention facilities, like one in Puyallup occasionally referred to as Camp Harmony.
Later groups were sent to 10 camps scattered around the country, including Minidoka in Idaho, where many Washingtonians and their families were incarcerated during the war.
Around 120,000 Japanese-Americans, mostly US citizens lived in the camps.
Crosscut talked to two people who were affected by the order.
92-year old at Sushi Kiyuti, who was in Minidoka for three years and now lives in Washington.
And 72-year old Eileen Yama Lamphere, whose parents met in Minidoka, and had her after the war ended, raising her in Kent.
(upbeat music) I'm Starla Sampaco, read their interviews and reflections on world war II on crosscut.com (upbeat music)
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