The main character and narrator of the story is a girl named Katie, a member of the Japanese-American family.

A Japanese-American family copes with a move and a terminal disease.

A key to Gabaldon's success was his ability to speak Japanese fluently due to being raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family.

He comes from a Japanese-American family.

To neutralize local leadership and forestall any protest, agents first arrested the elders - fathers of thousands of Japanese-American families.

Additionally, many Japanese-American families moved to Jefferson Park in the late 1940s to the 1960s.

It was common for Japanese-American families not to talk about the experience, or to talk about it only obliquely.

Most Americans, she said, have little education about what happened to Japanese-American families like hers, and she hopes the exhibit teaches them something.

"I simply do not see Japanese-American families being portrayed with an integrated cast," she said.

The attack on Pearl Harbor has tragic consequences for Japanese-American families.