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3D role-playing online game simulates experience of JAs in WWII concentration camps

Written by Gil Asakawa on June 14, 2011 — 2 Comments

Japanese Americans know about internment. My wife Erin’s parents, grandparents and great-grandparents on both sides were rounded up from Sacramento County, Calif. and eventually imprisoned at Rohwer, one of two concentration camps in Arkansas built during World War II to house Japanese Americans out of fear and racial hysteria. There were 10 in all, including […]

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