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People who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp and their stories

The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I am a visitor and can leave whenever I want. My grandfather couldn’t.

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2023

Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.

In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2023

‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place

The Guardian - US · May 7, 2023