5/30/2023 0 Comments They called us enemy takei![]() ![]() ![]() Takei’s father was an Issei (first-generation). It is noteworthy that the Nisei and Sansei (second- and third-generation Japanese Americans) were U.S. Takei’s family was taken by train from Los Angeles to Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, along with other 8,500 Japanese Americans. “In 1943, California passed a law that any farm equipment left behind could be seized by the state… We were forced to sell our property for a fraction of its worth.” ![]() The result was that 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to “internment camps” set up in remote areas of California, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Arkansas. “The order never used the word ‘Japanese’ or ‘Camps’-it authorized the military to declare areas ‘from which any or all persons may be excluded,’ and to provide ‘transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations’ to persons excluded from those areas.” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942. On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. The book is in the format of a graphic novel. Famous for his Star Trek role as Commander Sulu, George Takei tells the real-life story of his family’s experience as Japanese Americans during World War II. ![]()
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