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UMass Professor Shares Lessons From Visit to Japanese Internment Camp
UMass Boston Professor Paul Watanabe hopes exposing his students to the injustices of the past can prevent them from happening in the future.
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Professor Shares Painful Memories of Japanese Interment Camps to Avoid Repeating History
One of the main lessons of history is to not repeat the errors of the past. It’s why UMass Boston Professor Paul Watanabe brings his students to the Japanese internment camp where his family was forced to live for four and half years during WWII. It is an emotionally draining journey into the California desert in April, for them...
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Woman Recalls Family's Time in WWII Japanese Internment Camp
We’re honoring Asian-American heritage by looking at a dark period in our country’s past.
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Woman Recalls Family's Time in WWII Japanese Internment Camp
We’re honoring Asian-American heritage by looking at a dark period in our country’s past. During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 people; their only crime was being of Japanese heritage. Margaret Yamamoto was born just days before her family was forced to leave their home on Terminal Island just outside of Los Angeles. There is not a...