Episodes

  • Preview: Order 9066

    Preview: Order 9066
    Feb 12 2018
    First episode: Monday, Feb. 19.
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    4 mins
  • Chapter 1: The Roundup

    Chapter 1: The Roundup
    Feb 19 2018
    Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Hours later, the FBI began rounding up people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. This episode explores the history of anti-Asian prejudice in the United States that laid the groundwork for an assault on Japanese American communities after Pearl Harbor. Narrated by veteran actor Sab Shimono.
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    21 mins
  • Sab Shimono Remembers 'Camp'

    Sab Shimono Remembers 'Camp'
    Feb 26 2018
    Order 9066 co-host Sab Shimono's family was incarcerated during WWII. He shares childhood memories of living behind barbed wire.
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    16 mins
  • Chapter 2: The Order

    Chapter 2: The Order
    Mar 5 2018
    After Pearl Harbor, pressure grew to forcibly relocate all persons of Japanese ancestry from the Pacific coast. This episode tells the story behind FDR's decision to sign Order 9066, and Japanese Americans recall the painful process of leaving their lives and belongings -- and even their family pets -- behind.
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    23 mins
  • Songs of Incarceration

    Songs of Incarceration
    Mar 12 2018
    Musicians Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama perform songs about the incarceration in a former barrack at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. With a special appearance from Kishi Bashi.
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    17 mins
  • Chapter 3: Prison Cities

    Chapter 3: Prison Cities
    Mar 19 2018
    In the first months of incarceration, Japanese Americans were hit with the humiliating conditions of camp life. The U.S. government denied that people of Japanese ancestry living in the "assembly centers" were prisoners, but the first summer in these camps proved otherwise.
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    26 mins
  • Music on Heart Mountain

    Music on Heart Mountain
    Mar 26 2018
    Kishi Bashi, the renowned alt-rock musician, has been improvising music in places connected to the Japanese American incarceration. That includes the top of Heart Mountain, in Wyoming. Hear Kishi Bashi climb the mountain and perform a song that is part of his "songfilm" project, Omoiyari.
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    13 mins
  • Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do

    Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do
    Apr 3 2018
    It was a time to persevere in the face of the unendurable, and to do so with dignity. The Japanese term for that is Gaman.
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    30 mins