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First Person: Ruth Sasaki on Remembering Japanese Internment

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How Did You Get to Know the Japanese in the 1940s and 1950s?

Most bared japanese families, when they were interned, were initially sent to tenforen like your family was in san bruno. And your mother and other people got organize schools there and tried to sort of create a little pocket of normalcy. That's correct. Im the war relocation authority, a dids, made efforts to create schools for the elementary and high school age children,. but there was really nothing for the pre kindergarten age.

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