The Aftermath

A Japanese American family--father in suit carrying a young child, mother peering into window, and five-year-old girl--returns to their home after the war. Windows are boarded up and "No Japs Wanted" has been painted on the walls.
A Japanese family returning home from a relocation center camp in Hunt, Idaho, found their home and garage vandalized with anti-Japanese graffiti and broken windows in Seattle, Washington, on May 10, 1945. AP photo.
A Japanese American toddler peers out of the doorway of a dilapidated shack that served as postwar housing in Southern California.
A child sits in the doorway of one of the converted barracks buildings at the Lomita Flight Strip in Southern California in this undated 1945 photo. In the San Francisco Bay Area, limited government housing was provided for returning Japanese American families in places such as Richmond, Albany, and Hunter’s Point in San Francisco. Credit: Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley via Online Archive of California. 

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