In 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 that cleared the way for the incarceration of Japanese Americans in US confinement camps Men women and children of Japanese ancestry were evicted from the West Coast of the United States and held in sites across the country

For more than 75 years the story of Japanese Incarceration has been an untold chapter of American history This episode follows the politics of the country as WWII erupted how American citizens of Japanese descent were affected what their thoughts were in the face of Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war with Japan Germany and Italy nbsp