Order 9066

Order 9066

Order 9066 chronicles the history of the WWII Japanese American Incarceration through vivid, first-person accounts of those who lived through it. The series explores how this shocking violation of American democracy came to pass, and its legacy in the present.

Episodes

Preview: Order 9066

February 12, 2018 • 3 mins
First episode: Monday, Feb. 19.
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Chapter 1: The Roundup

February 19, 2018 • 21 mins
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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Sab Shimono Remembers 'Camp'

February 26, 2018 • 15 mins
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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Chapter 2: The Order

March 5, 2018 • 23 mins
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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Songs of Incarceration

March 12, 2018 • 17 mins
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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Chapter 3: Prison Cities

March 19, 2018 • 25 mins
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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Music on Heart Mountain

March 26, 2018 • 12 mins
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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Chapter 4: Gaman - Making Do

April 3, 2018 • 29 mins
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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Chapter 5: Fighting for Freedom

May 28, 2018 • 34 mins
More than 33,000 Japanese American men and women served in World War II. They fought as soldiers in Europe, and as translators in the Pacific.
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Objects of Incarceration

June 4, 2018 • 10 mins
A handmade pin tells an improbable love story from camp.
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Chapter 6: Resistance

June 11, 2018 • 36 mins
The Japanese Americans who protested their incarceration and defied the pressure to prove their patriotism.
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Childhood at Heart Mountain

June 18, 2018 • 15 mins
Two men who were imprisoned at Heart Mountain as boys remember their time in camp and how the experience shaped them as adults.
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Chapter 7: Leaving Camp

June 25, 2018 • 32 mins
At the end of 1944, the U.S. government lifted the order barring people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Many people freed from camp faced racism and poverty as they tried to rebuild their lives. Some found that leaving camp was even harder than being sent there.
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Chapter 8: Seeking Redress

July 2, 2018 • 34 mins
Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War Two demand that the federal government take account of their suffering and make reparations.
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