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Thirty years ago, the interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...
Last week people in four buses and several private cars made the journey to Tule Lake. Motives were mixed. "It was something my parents didn't talk a lot about," said Kouji Nakutu, 30, who was born in Tule Lake and left as a toddler. For the first 25 years of his life, he "went around denying that I was a Japanese American." He returned to Tule Lake because "I want to trace my roots...
...woman on the pilgrimage grasped the chain-link fence and recalled with tears in her eyes how she had done the same thing as a girl 30 years before, wishing she were on the other side. Another woman, Nancy Shibata, 43, was a teen-ager at Tule Lake, where she met her future husband. "I was young enough so that I didn't feel bitter," she remembers. Today the barbed wire causes more wonder than woe. "To look at it after you're out-I said, 'Gee, we stayed in a place like that...
...bitter residue of the experience remains for others. "I don't have a single good memory of Tule Lake," says Mas Kito, 59, who had been forced to abandon his dry-cleaning business. "I was mad then, and I'm still mad," adds Kiege Kaku, 59, of Palo Alto, Calif. He still cannot forget the War Relocation...
Authority official who told him, after he pleaded for a few more weeks to harvest the family's crops before going to Tule Lake: "Unless you're stupid, crippled or sick-all you Japs get on that...