Abstract:

"This public television program documents the struggle of Japanese Americans as they resettled throughout the U.S. following their incarceration in relocation camps during World War II. For decades after the war, they fought to overcome the stigma of being of Japanese ancestry and the prejudice they encountered as they tried to find housing and employment and laid the foundation for a better life after the war. Among the dozens of people interviewed are former Congressman Norman Mineta, Bill Taketa whose home was hit by bullets and an arson fire, Army veteran Mel Tominaga and Shig Takahashi who was one of the first Japanese Americans to return to California from a camp."