Read Chapter 4 (1) >> Loyalty Registration After The purpose of the loyalty registry was to separate those who were loyal to America from those who were not, to encourage those confirmed as loyal to America to serve in the military or to return quickly to American society through work …
Read Chapter 3 (6) >> The other day, after the school lesson was over, I headed to a bakery I'd never been to before. I took a bus and walked using a map app. It took nearly an hour to get there. My dream is to have my own bakery. …
Read Chapter 3 (5) >> Fresh air, a taste of freedom Yoshiko's father and mother received special permission from the relocation bureau to visit her father's mother and sister in Heart Mountain. Living like a caged bird unconsciously builds up a kind of sediment in the body and mind. Yoshiko …
Read Chapter 3 (4) >> 2. 1943 Children's daily life—Winter For the past month, the adults at Heart Mountain, including the administration and Japanese Americans, have been working together to build an ice rink by spraying water from fire hoses in several depressions within the camp. The long-awaited opening of …
Read Chapter 3 (3) >> Helping with the harvest — late autumn It is also a fruitful autumn. It is harvest season, but farms in California, Arizona, Idaho, and Wyoming are suffering from a labor shortage. The people who used to help with the harvest have been drafted into the …
Read Chapter 3 (2) >> September without school - Autumn The American school year ends in June, and after a long summer vacation of about three months, a new start begins in September. In September, children are given new clothes to match their height, which has increased over the summer, …
Read Chapter 3 (1) >> Community libraries as seen through camp newspapers Initially, each camp published a mimeographed newspaper, which played an important role in delivering everything from notices from the WRA to community news to each household. The WRA also subjected this newspaper to thorough censorship three times: when …
Read Chapter 2 (6) >> Once again, with preparations for their arrival incomplete, the Army decided to move the Japanese from the "assembly center" to a "relocation address" inland, far from civilization. After two days of sitting on hard seats in old, unused trains with the window shades down and …
Read Chapter 2 (5) >> 5. Towards the establishment of a library Movements to establish libraries began in each camp. Margaret Baba Yasuda, who was 17 years old at the time and was involved in the establishment of the library at the Puyallup camp, described the process as "a grassroots …
Read Chapter 2 (4) >> Visitor One day, a messenger arrives at high school student Frank Yamasaki's barracks to tell him that he has a guest from outside. It seems that it wasn't raining in Puyallup that day. I wondered who it might be, and when I went there, I …
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