Kodomo no tameni

KODOMO NO TAMENI : for the sake of our children.

Issei Pioneers ... Japantown ... World War II ... Minidoka ... Resettlement – words and stories from our Nikkei history.

Hear how Nihonmachi came to be, about being incarcerated behind barbed wires, the impact of Executive Order #9066, facing overt prejudice, and being stripped of human rights and freedom.

George Nakata grew up in Portland’s Japantown prior to World War II, was imprisoned into an ex-livestock yard, then into a desolate remote camp called Minidoka. Listen to little known facts of our Nikkei past, injustices suffered by many Nisei parents, Issei grandparents, by Nikkei relatives and friends.

Listen to the re-telling of first hand stories of one Japanese American – reflecting back upon our Nikkei roots ... our history. A chance to Listen and Learn. Most such experiences absent from American history books.

Recorded November 24, 2018 at the Oregon Buddhist Temple.