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California to apologize for

internment of Japanese

Americans

By CUNEYT DIL They were among 120,000
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Japanese Americans held
— Les Ouchida was born at 10 internment camps
an American just outside during World War II, their
California's capital city, only fault being "we had
but his citizenship mattered the wrong last names
little after Japan bombed and wrong faces," said
Pearl Harbor and the United Ouchida, now 82 and
States declared war. Based living a short drive from
solely on their Japanese where he grew up and was
ancestry, the 5-year-old taken as a boy due to fear
and his family were taken that Japanese Americans
from their home in 1942 would side with Japan in
and imprisoned far away in the war. In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, Les Ouchida poses at the permanent exhibit titled
Arkansas. Continued on next page "UpRooted Japanese Americans in World War II" at the California Museum in Sacramento, Calif.
Associated Press