“Life After Manzanar”: Examining the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration

Private Ben Hatanaka, on furlough from the US Army, sits under the entrance sign at Manzanar while visiting family members imprisoned there. (Courtesy of California State University, Sacramento Library, and Jill Hatanaka)

Incarcerated in Manzanar as young children, Natalie Hayashida, Jane Kitamoto, and Susan Hayashida (left to right) proudly sport Brownie uniforms in the early 1950s. (Courtesy of Densho and the Hayashida Family Collection)

Hundreds of people—both Japanese citizens and Americans who had renounced US citizenship—embark for Japan from Seattle in 1945. (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

Left to Right: Bob Takamoto, Bruce Sansui, and Mas Ooka revisit Manzanar, July 2016. (© Toyo Miyatake Studio)

Traci Kato-Kiriyama, daughter of a Manzanar incarceree, at the forty-eighth annual Manzanar Pilgrimage in April 2017, which commemorated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the signing of EO 9066. (© Matt Givot)