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An American soldier guards a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., May 23, 1943. (AP Photo)
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Japanese evacuees arriving at Manzanar, Calif., a government reception center in the Owens River Valley, Calif., spent the evening of March 23, 1942 stuffing straw into sacks, these to serve as mattresses. (AP Photo)
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Japanese evacuees from Pacific coastal regions now residing at the big reception center at Manzanar, Calif., were included in the nationwide draft registration in the 45 to 65 age group. C.E. Demorest, Inyo County board clerk, conducted the registration in one of the barracks, April 26, 1943. (AP Photo)
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Japanese family life is preserved even at mealtime in the large mess halls of this war relocation center, as young and old gather around the table, at Manzanar, Calif., July 16, 1942. Evacuees are largely on their own, growing food and working insofar as possible in their usual jobs. (AP Photo)
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All members of the Chick-a-dee Japanese Girl's Softball Team were evacuated to this war relocation center from Los Angeles so they kept their outfit together and are still swinging at wild ones like this in Manzanar, California July 16, 1942. (AP Photo)
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A group of Japanese evacuees moving into this war relocation authority center in Manzanar, California June 19, 1942. They seem cheerful enough. (AP Photo)
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Florence Yamaguchi, left, and Kinu Hirashima, both from Los Angeles, under an apple tree at this war relocation authority center in Manzanar, California June 19, 1942 for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Miss Yamaguchi is a Nissel and Miss Hirashima, an Issei. (AP Photo)
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A scene at the ice cream bar in the community store at this war relocation authority center ion Manzanar, California June 19, 1942 where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration. In foreground are, left to right: Florence Yamaguchi, Nancy Kawashimi and Floyd Fujiu, all from Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
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George S. Takemura, left, landscape Gardner from west Los Angeles, now occupies the showplace of Manzanar, California June 17, 1942, a war relocation authority center for Japanese. He has built a wishing well and other rustic articles for his quarters. (AP Photo)
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Members of the Chicka- Dee softball team from Los Angeles, chooses sides for a practice game at Manzanar, Calif., War Relocation Center, June 17, 1942. (AP Photo)
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Japanese evacuees from Pacific Coastal regions now residing at the big reception center at Manzanar, California April 26, 1942, were included in the nationwide draft registration in the 45 to 65 age group. C. E. Demorest into county board clerk conducted the registration in one of the barracks. (AP Photo)
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Carpenters rushed work on the first of 25 blocks of barracks at Manzanar, in Californiaâs Owens Valley March 19, 1942 in preparation for the first group of Alien and American â born Japanese to be evacuated from Southern California cities beginning March 23. Each block will have 14 barracks, recreation hall, mess hall, laundry and other service units. In addition, a 150-bed hospital will be erected for the model community. (AP Photo)
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Japanese are making themselves comfortable in their barrack-like surroundings. They are helping the construction of building and planning farms for the future. A group surveys the lands in hope of starting a garden March 27, 1942. (AP Photo)
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A 150- bed hospital in Manzanar, Calif. has been provided by the U.S. government for Japanese evacuated from Pacific Coast cities and communities. Nurse Fumiko Gohata holds the arm of patient Frank Saito while Dr. James Goto stands by, March 27, 1942. (AP Photo)
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The first day the Japanese reception center at Manzanar, Owens Valley, Calif., was in operation, the center's hospital did a big business, March 24, 1942. Here patient Sho Nakata is having an injured leg treated by Dr. James Goto and nurse Fumiko Gohata. (AP Photo)
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Enough vaccines to inocculate the 10,000 Japanese who will be in the Owens valley reception center, already are on hand and are shown with Dr. James Goto, in charge of the hospital at the center in California March 24, 1942. Each Japenese will be innocilated after arrival at the center. (AP Photo)
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A picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, military nemesis of the Japanese forces, hung in a flace of honor, March 24, 1942 on the wall of the room of Gene Hashimoto (left) and Mary Wada was at the reception center established at Manzanar in the Owens Valley for Japanese evacuated from Los Angeles. Miss Hashimoto wrote friends at home of the new life at the hastily constructed community. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** In this March 24, 1942 file photo Japanese citizens wait in line for their assigned homes at an alien reception center in Manzanar, Calif. Many were forced from their homes in Los Angeles by the U.S. Army. The National Day of Remembrance, for the detention of 120,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II, was observed around the country Thursday. (AP Photo, file)
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Japanese citizens wait in line for their assigned homes at an internment camp reception center in Manzanar, Calif., on March 24, 1942. Many were forced from their homes in Los Angeles by the U.S. Army. (AP Photo)
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First arrivals at the Japanese evacuee community established in the owens valley at Manzanar, California March 23, 1942, part of a vanguard of 86 workers from Los Angeles, are assigned to quarters in the barracks. More than 800 were moved into the camp. (AP Photo)
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Gas stations at Mojave, Calif. did a land-office business when the convoy of automobile carrying Japanese aliens and citizens to the Manzanar reception center stopped to refuel, March 23, 1942. (AP Photo/John T. Burns)
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Japanese removed from their Los Angeles homes line up at the governmentâs alien camp at Manzanar, Calif. March 23, 1942 for their first meal after arrival at the camp. Rice, Beans, Prunes bread were included in the menu. (AP Photo)
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Japanese removed from their Los Angeles homes at the governmentâs alien camp at Manzanar, Calif., March 23, 1942. (AP Photo)
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These Japanese women making themselves comfortable in their new quarters after their arrival March 23, 1942 at the Alien Reception Center at Manzanar, Calif.. Left to right: Shizuko Yarmada, Lillian Ito, and Mary Wada. (AP Photo)
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Young Japanese, members of the first mass migration from Los Angeles for the war's duration, wave goodbye March 23, 1942 from the steps of an army train taking them to the reception center being built at Manzanar, Calif. (AP Photo)
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The first of 350 such barracks to house 10,000 Japanese in Manzanar, Calif., evacuated from Southern California cities. Photo taken March 21, 1942. (AP Photo)
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Japanese Latin Americans are shown in an unknown location en route to internment camps in the United States during World War II in this undated photo from the National Japanese American Historical Society. A class action suit against the United States was filed Wednesday, Aug 28, 1996, on behalf of the Japanese Latin Americans who were abducted and deported to the United States, then held to be exchanged for American prisoners of war. (AP Photo/National Japanese American Historical Society)
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Nine hundred and ninety one Japanese repatriates, most of them from an internment camp in Texas, boarded the liner Matsonian in Seattle, Washington for Japan on Dec. 7, 1945. This is a view of the Hiyarama family. (AP Photo)