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Mickey Mouse geta photo: courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, collage: David Izu

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Michael Goro Takeuchi with his grandfather Jingo’s government file. He is holding a copy of the letter that his father wrote as a child from the Topaz, Utah, camp, in 1944, asking for his father’s release. Photo: Nancy Ukai.

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Watercolor with Minnie or Mickey figure by a child confined in Colorado at Granada (Amache) in a class taught by artist Kate Mieko Kuzuhara (1913-1996). Courtesy of Japanese American Service Committee, Chicago.