The Internment of Japanese Americans

In an unforgettable essay, Iwao Matsushita tells the story of a married couple, separated by internment, who fought to maintain hope that they would be brought back together. Charles Kikuchi describes what it was like to be a university student forced into internment. From these narratives and other primary source essays collected in this book, readers will learn of the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II. Essay sources include Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Japanese American National Museum.