WWII Japanese internment camp survivor John Sasaki, who owned Lake View East dry cleaners, dead at 87
John Sasaki.
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John Sasaki, the longtime owner of Barry-Regent Dry Cleaners in Lake View East, was just 6 when he was incarcerated in a Japanese internment camp during World War II.
In 1942, he, his parents and his older brother Fred Sasaki were forced to leave their apartment and dry-cleaning business in Los Angeles and live at a horse-racing track outside the city being used as one of the U.S. government’s temporary detention centers to house people of Japanese descent. Читать дальше...