Amy Goodman
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George Takei on Life Inside a Japanese Internment Camp During WWII
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February 27, 2014
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7:37Now PlayingLegendary actor, author and activist, George Takei, best known for playing Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, appears on Democracy Now! for an extended interview. In this excerpt, he talks about his role as World War II veteran Sam Kimura in "AllegianceA New American Musical." The musical tells the story of a JapaneseAmerican family who is relocated from their farm after the attack on Pearl Harbor and placed in an internment camp in Wyoming. This parallels part of Takei's own family history. At the age of five, his family was shipped to a JapaneseAmerican internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas.
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