US Edition‘Hands off our history’: Activists in Little Tokyo speak to affirm WWII history
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‘Hands off our history’: Activists in Little Tokyo speak to affirm WWII history
Kyoko Oda, 80, was born in 1945 into incarceration at Tule Lake Segregation Center, where 30,000 Japanese Americans lived when forced from their homes during World War II. Her father, Tatsuo Inouye, was isolated from his family and confined at the Tule Lake Stockade — a “prison within a prison,” as Oda called it, used to punish those labelled “disloyal” for resisting incarceration. Eight decades later, Oda shared her story at “Never Again,” an …
She was 21 years old when the war broke out. She worked in sericulture, collecting silk thread from silkworms and weaving it. She was good at making clothes, and even back then she wore clothes she made herself. When the Americans landed on the main island of Okinawa, there was a big uproar. She left her home in Yagaya, Kitanakagusuku village, and headed for Shimajiri in the south. Her husband had been drafted into the army, so she fled with her…
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