Effectively stripped of everything they'd ever worked so hard for, his family was shipped off to Rohwer Relocation Centre in Arkansas, thousands of miles away from California. His childhood seems to have been an extremely typical one until everything changed overnight. It struck a chord with me as a six year old and that page was very much burnt into my mind forevermore.Īnyway, I digress for this is George Takei's story and very well told it is too, as you might expect. Specifically INVADERS #27 (released in 1978) penned by Roy Thomas where Captain America, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner fly to the location Bucky was last seen (he's been kidnapped by Agent Axis along with Toro) and are appalled by what they witness at just such an internment camp.

I actually learnt about the American internment of its own citizens through comics coincidentally enough. government during World War II.Įxperience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love.' In a stunning graphic memoir, Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future. 'George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. Here's the publisher to tell us more about this divisive episode in US history as experienced by the living legend himself. But for the burgeoning Japanese American community, the events of Pearl Habour were about to turn their happy lives in the 'land of the free' into a living nightmare. 'Boldly going to a strange, new world, seeking new opportunities.

'I am the grandson of immigrants from Japan who went to America. Her father had sent to her to Japan to avoid school segregation in Sacramento.'

'My mother, Fumiko Emily Nakamura, was born in Florin, California, but was raised traditionally Japanese. He later pursued a lucrative dry cleaning business in Los Angeles' Wilshire corridor. He came to America as a teenager and was educated in the Bay area. 'My father, Takemura Norman Takei, was born in Yamanashi, Japan.

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