Across the ocean: a Japanese American story of war and homecoming
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The Importance of Japanese American Identity
More than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced to live in federal incarceration camps during World War II. In the early 1900s, American citizens, children, of Japanese descent whose families left the US to return to Japan when suddenly war broke out. The story is one that defines what it means to be a Japanese American.
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