3 real historical locations · United States
Set on a Pacific Northwest island in 1951, this mystery revisits wartime injustice as a Japanese-American fisherman is tried for murder. Told in flashback, it explores the internment of Japanese-Americans and the wounds left by war on a small coastal community.
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A Japanese-American fisherman is tried for murder on a Pacific Northwest island in the late 1940s — the case haunted by wartime Japanese-American internment ...
Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 authorised the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were US citizens. San Juan Island's Japanese-American farming and fishing community was forcibly remove...
View location →Hatsue and her family are interned at Manzanar in the Sierra Nevada after Pearl Harbor. The injustice of internment — Japanese-Americans imprisoned without c...
Executive Order 9066 (February 1942) forcibly relocated 120,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of them US citizens. Manzanar in the Owens Valley held 10,000 people. No internee was ever convicted of espionage.
View location →The fictional San Juan Island of Amity is the setting for a post-war murder trial that tears open the wounds of Japanese internment and wartime racism on a c...
The San Juan Islands had a significant Japanese-American fishing community before the war. Japanese-American citizens lost farms, businesses, and property during internment; most were never compensated.
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