U.S. internment camp history marked at Arizona park

U.S. internment camp history marked at Arizona park

Kenso Zenimura, an 89-year-old former Japanese professional baseball player, points to a photo showing him held at an internment camp for Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans during World War II in Chandler, Arizona as the city unveils on Jan. 21, 2017 a series of panels with information about the area's wartime history. The city held a ceremony to unveil the panels near Nozomi Park, the complex of baseball parks and swimming pools, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Feb. 19, 1942, signing by President Franklin Roosevelt of an executive order which resulted in the incarceration of Japanese immigrants and U.S. citizens of Japanese descent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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