The shameful stories of environmental injustices at Japanese

When Japanese fighter pilots bombed the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, Thomas S Takemura was raising vegetables and raspberries on his family’s 14 ½-acre farm in Tacoma, Washington. It wasn’t long after the United States declared war on Japan that Takemura and other people of…

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