It has been nearly a decade since Marciano first found largely unknown government files on internments. Kawate’s long search for answers eventually led him to the University of Maryland and Richard Marciano, a professor at the College of Information Studies. “Not even my mother knew this,” he told a documentary crew from NHK, Japan’s public media organization. Kawate was baffled: Why did his father renounce his U.S. But having heard that many persons who were in the similar situation were successful in getting the citizenship reinstated through you, I have decided to write you.” “In the past I have never filled out the affidavit to apply for reistating (sic) my citizenship because I thought my case was quite difficult. But being a renounced I have to get my citizenship reinstated to do it,” he wrote. “I am now seriously thinking of going back to the United States if possible. But the 1958 note addressed to a San Francisco attorney raised new questions about what that experience-and his father’s life-had actually entailed. Kawate, a high school teacher, had known that his father, a second-generation Japanese American born to immigrants in California, had lived in the United States before being imprisoned along with more than 100,000 other Japanese immigrants and Americans in camps during World War II. A FEW YEARS after Masao Kawate died in 1997, his son Haruo was sifting through his papers and diaries in Tokyo when a curious letter caught his attention.
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