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Jul 17, 2019 · George Takei Recalls Time In An American Internment Camp In 'They Called Us Enemy' Through his graphic memoir, the Star Trek actor-turned-author shows that while it may be too late to undo...
Apr 20, 2024 · When actor George Takei was 4 years old, he was labeled an "enemy" by the U.S. government and sent to a string of incarceration camps. His new children's book about that time is My Lost Freedom.
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- Morita Said The Camps Were 'America’s Version of Concentration Camps'
- Takei’s Family of Five Was Forced to Sleep in A Horse Stall
- Life After The Internment Camps Was A Big Adjustment For Both Families
From the time he was a toddler, Morita faced some of life’s biggest challenges. Born Noriyuki Morta on July 28, 1932, he was confined to a body cast because of spinal tuberculosis from the time he was 2 years old. Learning to walk at age 9, he spent nine years in a “charitable infirmary for poor, immigrant children at San Francisco’s Shriners Hospi...
Born in Los Angeles on April 20, 1937, Takei was only four years old during Pearl Harbor— and had just turned 5 when he remembers the harrowing knock on the door. “We saw two soldiers, marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them,” he recalled onLate Night with Seth Meyers. “They stomped up the porch and with their fists be...
Returning home was a harsh slap in the face for both families. When Morita’s family was freed in October 1945, they had to start life from the bottom again, living out knapsacks and working back in the crop fields. Eventually, they saved enough to open a Chinese restaurant in Sacramento, California. “A Japanese family running a Chinese restaurant i...
Aug 15, 2019 · George Takei tells TIME about living in a Japanese-American internment camp as a child and what inspired his new show, 'The Terror: Infamy.'
Feb 10, 2017 · Actor George Takei reflects on a lifetime of activism, the legacy of Japanese American internment camps and the spirit of 'gaman.'
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Aug 15, 2019 · George Takei tells TIME about living in a Japanese-American internment camp as a child and what inspired his new show, ‘The Terror: Infamy.’
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May 14, 2017 · This year, 75 years after the executive order that authorized internment, Takei is using his platform to denounce the current administration’s approach to immigration, and, recently, to ...
