Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order requiring all Japanese Americans to be arrested and interned.
Two internment camps were built in Arizona and one of its unfortunate prisoners was Masaji Inoshita, who became a highly sought-after speaker over the past couple of decades to talk about what he and his family went through.
Mas, as he was known, passed away earlier this month in Phoenix. We talked about the internment camps and Mas Inoshita with Karen Leong, Associate Professor in Arizona State’s School of Social Transformation.
