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    'There's our family name': Sacred book honors Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII

    by Anh Do, Los Angeles Times Sep 25, 2022 3 minutes
    A procession of spiritual leaders, survivors, family members, and representatives from each of the 75 camps that Japanese Americans were sent to during World War II.

    The book weighs 25 pounds and is more than 1,000 pages long. It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible.

    Instead of the word of God, it contains names — 125,284 names.

    A few are living. Most are dead. All were incarcerated behind barbed wire during World War II, their only crime their Japanese ancestry.

    June Aochi Berk stepped forward. Her name was in the thick tome.

    Next to the names of her parents, Chujiro Aochi and Kei Aochi, she stamped a blue

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