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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Maureen O'Donnell

May Nakano, Chicago HUD building manager who was interned in Canada during WWII for being Japanese, dead at 79

May Nakano dressed as Queen Elizabeth for Halloween one year at the Japanese American Service Committee’s adult daycare program. (Provided)

As a baby, May Nakano lived in a 448-square-foot wooden shack in Canada where ice formed inside during the winter. 

After Japan’s bombing of Pearl Harbor, Canadian authorities, like the U.S. government, forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and into internment camps because they were of Japanese heritage.

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