Not so fun fact: like George Takei, Robert Kinoshita also spent time in a Japanese internment camp during WWII (Takei's family was interned in Arkansas; Kinoshita and his wife in Arizona).
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Not so fun fact: like George Takei, Robert Kinoshita also spent time in a Japanese internment camp during WWII (Takei's family was interned in Arkansas; Kinoshita and his wife in Arizona).
Rather, a Japanese-American internment camp, a vital distinction that the US government shamefully ignored. Like Takei, Kinoshita was born in Los Angeles.
Actually there was internment of Italian-Americans, a group that faced ethnic discrimination and persecution in America for a long time:
https://www.history.com/news/italian-american-internment-persecution-wwii
And internment of German-Americans during both World Wars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
A friend's father, a professor of American History, wrote some books on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Internment-History-Relocation-Italian-Americans/dp/0805791086
https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Invisible-Gulag-Biography-Internment/dp/0820449148
The Puyallup Fairgrounds located just south of Seattle-Tacoma was used to intern Japanese-Americans from the Pacific Northwest during the war. There's a small museum recounting the history of the camp located on the fairground.
My father grew up a few blocks from that camp, and knew some of the families imprisoned there. We visited that museum together some years ago.
I'm convinced that's why he was such a passionate believer in civil rights for the rest of his life.
And despite that, she loved him. Proof that hapless hero/brainy heroine pairings can work.
