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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...
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Takei was born to Japanese American parents, with whom he lived in U.S.-run internment camps during World War II. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s.
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.’
Jun 21, 2019 · From a 2013 "Sunday Morning" interview, actor and activist George Takei revisited the site of the Rohwer, Arkansas internment camp where, at age five, he and his family were relocated with...
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Aug 22, 2019 · George Takei is on a mission to teach the lessons of internment in the era of Trump. By Martin Wolk. Aug. 22, 2019 7 AM PT. Actor George Takei has told the story of his childhood incarceration in...