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Little Tokyo Community Profiles
Keeping Little Tokyo Safe: Satoru Uyeda's Volunteer Spirit
The connection between Japanese Americans and World War II is an important one to understand for all Americans. With one piece of legislation—Executive Order 9066—thousands of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans were sent to several internment camps dotting the country. One of these was the Manzanar internment camp located in California’s Owens Valley. It was here that the Uyeda family was forced to relocate to and it was here that Satoru was born.
Following the end of World War II and the end of the internment, Japanese Americans were able to return to Little Tokyo. However, they ...
