Amazon.com description: Product Description: In an ominous departure from American constitutional guarantees 110,000 West Coast Japanese were evacuated and interned during World War ll. Here is the whole shameful story, told in full for the first time. It is a story told largely in the words of the people themselves, about their reactions and experiences in this cataclysmic uprooting that robbed them of their homes, their businesses, their farms, their sense of belonging to a nation that repudiated them solely on grounds of racial ties with the enemy.