Survivor recalls life in internment camp for Japanese-Americans

[yuiyoshida]

MANZANAR —

At age 15, Rosie Maruki Kakuuchi became a prisoner in the blink of an eye, in her own country.

Now 88, she recalls the three miserable years she and her family endured in one of the concentration camps the United States set up for Japanese-Americans after Tokyo attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

“We were treated like enemies,” Kakuuchi told AFP from her home in Las Vegas.

Here was a government taking extreme measures that reflected fears that such Americans—some 112,500 were interned in the camps—could not be trusted as the country waged war in the Pacific.

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