Your article showed uncommon insight into the Japanese and Japanese American incarceration in concentration camps during World War II.

The mainstream press usually covers the event in a factual manner and victims usually speak of forgiveness and no bitterness.

Through Nomura and Tokita's lives, you managed to touch on the emotional impact that few want to speak about--betrayal, victimization, depression, racial prejudice, loss, and the destruction of creative lives.

Tokita alluded to that sense of betrayal--one day you are a good guy, the next day the enemy, and then you are released from prison with $25 in your pocket.

For the Japanese American survivors, the incarceration is like a suicide in the family. It is like a ship's wake that always surrounds you and is always present.

Thank you for your work.

Larry Matsuda, Poet and Author
Born in captivity--Minidoka, Idaho, Block 26, Barrack 2

WHO IS ROGER SHIMOMURA????

I've never heard of either one of these guys (I live in Wisconsin). Tokita reminds me a little of Charles Sheeler or Charles Demuth. Wish I could see the show.