It’s a troubling chapter of American history that is often overlooked: The incarceration of more than 120,000 US residents of Japanese descent during World War II, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Today, survivors of those internment camps worry that similar social and political conditions exist that could lead to internment camps popping up again. KQED’s Keith Mizuguchi reports.
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