A letter writer to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer pointed out that Japanese were to be sent to concentration camps, had to obey a curfew and were restricted to how far they could travel; but she wrote that the U.S. Constitution states that citizens…
These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well…