Approximately one-third of the Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII were children. This week, Topaz Stories lets us hear from three of them.
Roy Iwata writes about his clever plan to get more sweets in camp in “Sweet Tooth.”
As children, Ruth Hayashi and her friends, somewhat paradoxically, experience unprecedented freedom and get up to a lot of mischief, as Ruth relates in “Hazukashii.”
In “Kiku’s Angel,” Ann Tamaki Dion captures her cousin’s experience of being a child in Topaz.
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