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'There's our family name': Sacred book honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII

Por: Los Angeles Times Nation September 25, 2022

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The book weighs 25 pounds and is more than 1,000 pages long. It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible. Instead of the word of God, it contains names — 125,284 names. A few are living. Most are dead. All were incarcerated behind barbed wire during World War II, their only crime their Japanese ancestry. June Aochi Berk stepped forward. Her name was in the thick tome. Next to the names of her parents, Chujiro Aochi and Kei Aochi, she stamped... + full article



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