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Jonathan Hirabayashi and Joe Yoshino, Topaz descendants, both attended the Topaz Stories reception on April 22.

Jonathan Hirabayashi and Joe Yoshino at the Topaz Stories reception in the Utah State Capitol, April 22, 2022.
Jonathan Hirabayashi and Joe Yoshino at the Topaz Stories reception in the Utah State Capitol, April 22, 2022. (Leona Lau)

But they have more than that in common: Jonathan’s mother, Shizu Mitsuyoshi, and Joe’s parents, Joe and Jean Yoshino, were all captured in this iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of Japanese Americans from the East Bay waiting in line for the evening meal at Tanforan Assembly Center in 1942.

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