![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tanaka takes a job working in the kitchens. Tanaka joins the building team responsible for constructing new barracks as more and more Japanese family arrive. Eventually, the Tanaka's arrive at a half built Manzanar internment camp, where they must share one small room with a women and her many children. Traumatized by all that she has just experienced, unable to bear the pain of losing Yujiin and the hurt it has caused her grandfather, Yujiin finds herself unable to speak. ![]() A soldier puts Yujiin in a crate and he is left behind. Unable to leave him behind, Manami hides the little dog inside her coat and no one notices until they are far from home. Grandfather has made arrangement for Yujiin to be picked up by their minister, since not pets are allowed to go with them. Instead of school, Manami, her mother, father and grandfather must register in order to be sent away to an unknown place taking only what they can carry. Except now, there is war and there are warships carrying soldiers passing by.Īt school, Manami is told it is her last day, the last day for all the Japanese students. It's March 1942 and for 10 year-old Manami Tanaka, walking on the beach near her home on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her grandfather and their dog Yujiin before they walk together to school is always a treat. ![]()
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