BBC World Service interview - Frank Abe - June 20, 2018
Channel: Resisters_dot_com
Date: 2018-08-05

AUDIO INTERVIEW: As documented in our new biography, JOHN OKADA, the Japanese American experience was in some ways the reverse of the child separations of June 2018. It was the fathers -- harmless men like the fathers of both John Okada and Jim Akutsu -- who were ripped from their children and wives on Feb. 21, 1942, locked up in the Immigration Detention Center on Airport Way, and then paraded out at King Street Station the morning of March 19, 1942 and put on a train for the Justice Department alien internment camp at Fort Missoula, Montana. Their children and wives reached through an iron fence and screamed out to the men in English and Japanese, not knowing if they would ever see them again. Here's the BBC Radio interview that aired in London at 10 am June 18 where co-editor Frank Abe shares this story. #FamiliesBelongTogether