The book starkly depicts exactly who would be excluded from those military areas: All persons of Japanese ancestry. Ten days later, California and portions of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona were declared a military area. On February 19, 1942, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the military to declare areas from which any or all persons may be excluded. At that time, Asian immigrants were forbidden from applying for U.S. George Takei’s father, Takekuma Norman Takei, was raised in the United States but had been born in Japan. That same day, the president signed a proclamation declaring that every adult Japanese citizen inside the United States was now an alien enemy and must follow strict regulations. Immediately following the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Franklin D.
George Takei’s kindergarten photo, taken while he was imprisoned at the Rohwer Internment Camp in Arkansas. Readers will learn and contemplate about this dark stain on American history. The time has never been more relevant to bring to light the wrong that had been dealt to Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, simply based on their ethnicity. Takei, well-known for his inspiring role as Star Trek’s Hikaru Sulu, now shares his tragic childhood experience in the form of an illustrated memoir. What does it mean to be an American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? These are the questions that emanate from George Takei’s new graphic novel account of life as a child in two Japanese internment camps during World War II. Japanese-American children during the internment.
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