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Albert Bunji Ikeda, a third-generation Japanese American, recalls why his ancestors came to the United States from Japan and how he experienced racism during  World War II. After Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt put out an executive order to place Japanese-Americans into internment camps.

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Actor George Takei recalls what it was like to be taken from his home and forced to live in the Japanese internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Starting in 1942, over 110,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up into internment camps, called "War Relocation Camps".

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