Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain Joseph Hamill Okinawa International University

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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain Joseph Hamill Okinawa International UniversityOn August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U. S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the following weeks and months, they would be joined by some 10,000 of the more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent, two thirds of them U. S. citizens, incarcerated as "domestic enemy aliens" during World War II. Heart Mountain became a town with