Heart Mountain Incarceration Site Miki Hayakawa and Ray Locker

and Ray Locker

In 1951 the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants chose Yonamine as the first American to play in Japan during the Allied occupation

But when Anzu’s flowers seem to lose their power

Hiroshi (Roy)

Image of the Sutra stones from Heart Mountain that are in JANM's collection

Heart Mountain Incarceration Site Miki Hayakawa and Ray LockerBy Ray Locker. More than 14,000 people of Japanese descenttwo thirds of them US citizenswere exiled from August 1942 to November 1945 to the Heart Mountain Incarceration Site on the high desert prairie of Wyomings Big Horn Basin. The site was the temporary home for Japanese Americans forced from their homes in California, Oregon, and Washington. Believed to be saboteurs or spies or both, the prisoners were viewed with fear, hatred, and sometimes