Like thousands of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, Yoji Matsushima and his family were forcibly removed from their homes during WWII. Immediately after Pearl Harbor, his father was arrested and incarcerated at a Department of Justice internment camp; while Yoji and the rest of his family were sent to Minidoka in Idaho. Yoji explains how they were eventually reunited at a little-known DOJ camp in Texas.

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