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A Japanese-American man from Baton Rouge, Louisiana visited Fresno for the first time in 78 years Tuesday to see where he and his parents had to report in 1942 after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. Walter Imahara was 4-years-old at the time. What is now the Fresno Fairgrounds was the Fresno Assembly Center. It’s where Japanese Americans from around the state arrived before being transported to internment camps. In honor of those interned, there is now a memorial bearing the names of those who came through the Fresno Center. “My mother; Irene is my sister; James Imahara is my father; Jane, my sister; John is my brother; Jun is my brother; Lily is my sister. Oldest sister is May,” Imahara read the names of his parents and six of his siblings. “Then I’m Walter at the top.” The family came from their home in Sacramento, per Roosevelt’s Executive Order. His mother gave birth to her seventh child in Fresno. Imahara says his father had to go back to the
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