japanese-american incarceration camps

George Takei testifies before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians in California in 1981.

Arts

George Takei got reparations. He says they 'strengthen the integrity of America'

1:07pm February 18, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

Many of the Japanese Americans incarcerated at Tule Lake had been farmers before the war. At camp, they were employed as field workers, often for $12 a month. Here, incarcerees work in a carrot field.

National

Farming Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-Americans Remember WWII Incarceration

7:00am February 19, 2017

by Lisa Morehouse

Many of the incarcerated were farmers, coerced to work the land in the camps. The food they grew was meant for the incarcerated but camp administrators sold it on the open market. Resistance ensued.