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This Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, triggering the internment of 120,000 citizens of Japanese descent. The Conversation spoke to the author of a new book exploring how a Hawaiʻi group mobilized to protect the local Japanese community.