Japanese Internment

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Former Star Trek actor, George Takei was a little boy when the US government decided that his Japanese family could pose a risk to the state. During WW2, he, and thousands of other people were interned in camps for years on end. He tells Witness his story. (Photo: A bus full of Japanese internees being taken from a canal zone to internment camp in the United States. There are a couple of Japanese Army reservists among them. 6th April 1942 ) (Credit:Keystone/Getty Images)