Performer Creates Japanese Internment One-Man Show
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| Hear Alton Chung perform an excerpt from his show in the character of Fred Korematsu. |
More than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were forcibly moved to internment camps during World War II.
A Portland-area performer is telling the lives of six people affected by the internments in a dramatic one-man show.
Kodomo No Tame Ni – For the Sake of the Children – continues this weekend at the Hipbone Studio in Portland.
Alton Takiyama Chung is the creator and performer. One of the stories he tells is about Fred Korematsu.
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