Episodes

  • Chapter 8: Seeking Redress

    Chapter 8: Seeking Redress
    Jul 2 2018
    Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two demand that the federal government take account of their suffering and make reparations.
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    35 mins
  • Chapter 7: Leaving Camp

    Chapter 7: Leaving Camp
    Jun 25 2018
    At the end of 1944, the U.S. government lifted the order barring people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Many people freed from camp faced racism and poverty as they tried to rebuild their lives. Some found that leaving camp was even harder than being sent there.
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    33 mins
  • Childhood at Heart Mountain

    Childhood at Heart Mountain
    Jun 18 2018
    Two men who were imprisoned at Heart Mountain as boys remember their time in camp and how the experience shaped them as adults.
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    15 mins
  • Chapter 6: Resistance

    Chapter 6: Resistance
    Jun 11 2018
    The Japanese Americans who protested their incarceration and defied the pressure to prove their patriotism.
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    36 mins
  • Objects of Incarceration

    Objects of Incarceration
    Jun 4 2018
    A handmade pin tells an improbable love story from camp.
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    10 mins
  • Chapter 5: Fighting for Freedom

    Chapter 5: Fighting for Freedom
    May 28 2018
    More than 33,000 Japanese American men and women served in World War II. They fought as soldiers in Europe, and as translators in the Pacific.
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    34 mins
  • Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do

    Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do
    Apr 3 2018
    It was a time to persevere in the face of the unendurable, and to do so with dignity. The Japanese term for that is Gaman.
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    30 mins
  • Music on Heart Mountain

    Music on Heart Mountain
    Mar 26 2018
    Kishi Bashi, the renowned alt-rock musician, has been improvising music in places connected to the Japanese American incarceration. That includes the top of Heart Mountain, in Wyoming. Hear Kishi Bashi climb the mountain and perform a song that is part of his "songfilm" project, Omoiyari.
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    13 mins