In the obituaries of elderly Japanese-Americans in Washington state, they almost always list the World War II incarceration camp they went to. In Seattle, it's almost always Minidoka in Idaho.
In a five-part series, KING 5's Lori Matsukawa looks back at Executive Order 9066, which forced approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry into U.S. government internment camps during World War II. Japanese Americans from the Pacific Northwest share their stories of being "Prisoners in Their Own Land."
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