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Japanese Americans Look Back on Mass Incarceration in U.S.

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which led to the incarceration of 120,000 innocent Japanese Americans. We spoke with people who lived through it.

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