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Injustice at Home

Resilience and Resettlement: WWII and Beyond (Secondary)

A study of the resettlement of Japanese Americans after WWII and the ongoing hardships and discrimination they experienced in the postwar years.

Wartime Witness

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S3 Ep6 | 7m 35s | Takuichi Fujii used art to captured his experiences in Japanese American internment camps. (7m 35s)

We Only Took What We Could Carry

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S3 Ep1 | 8m | Japanese living on west coast forced to leave their homes with only what they could carry (8m)

We Lost Everything

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S3 Ep2 | 6m 36s | Japanese Americans lost freedom, possessions, privacy and dignity when forced into camps. (6m 36s)

Shikata ga nai

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S3 Ep4 | 6m 4s | "Shikata ga nai, you can’t help this, you can’t change this, so make the best of it." (6m 4s)

No Place to Come Home To

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S3 Ep3 | 5m 29s | Incarceration camps closed, most Japanese Americans were not welcome to return home. (5m 29s)

Never Again

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S3 Ep5 | 5m 6s | Douglas Heyamoto learned from his parent’s experience. (5m 6s)

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