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The shameful stories of environmental injustices at Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII

  • Written by Connie Y. Chiang, Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College
imageDust storm on July 3, 1942, at the Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center in California.Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration

When Japanese fighter pilots bombed the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Thomas S. Takemura was raising vegetables and raspberries on his family’s 14 ½-acre...

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