Snow Falling on Cedars

The Woodward's have been honored countless times for their bravery and willingness to stand up for justice. The newspaper was the only publication on the West Coast that consistently spoke out against Japanese internment during World War II. According to the Bainbridge Island Japanese American community website, the words of the Woodward's Palo Tocquis helped the island Nikkei or the people of Japanese heritage return not as strangers, but as the same old friends they were when they left. But Paul Otaki and his family never returned to Bainbridge Island. Because his parents were not US citizens, they could never legally buy property before being evicted.