Japanese Americans who rebuilt lives in the suburbs reflect on Pearl Harbor trauma, legacy

Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor naval station on Dec. 7, 1941. Like many Americans, Jean Mishima of Glenview remembers the chaotic aftermath of the attack as if it happened yesterday. Mishima now reflects on how that infamous day altered the futures of her family and those of thousands of people of Japanese descent who were uprooted and incarcerated in the months after the attack.

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