Placer County is home to one of America’s oldest Japanese communities. Many Japanese immigrants built a life here in agriculture. And despite hardships and prejudice, Placer’s Japanese families and Japan towns thrived. Until World War II, when Japanese exclusion laws and internment threatened to take it all away.

In this third episode of our four-part miniseries about the ways World War II changed life in Placer County, we explore the experiences of our Japanese American neighbors. It’s a story of hardship and tragedy, but also of resilience, kindness and hope. Transcript: https://shorturl.at/p1k3J

Visit Placer County Museums’ virtual exhibit, “The Japanese Community During World War II“: https://express.adobe.com/page/9942dkYpeg4dU/?ref=https%3A%2F%2F