Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day This is the complex story

This is the complex story of a Japanese immigrant family ripped apart by WWII

and survival as highly literate men faced with captivity in the little-known prison camps run by the U

Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar

William Hohri

she embarks on a journey to teach judo in the United States

Only What We Could Carry Mother's Day This is the complex storyBy Lawson Fusao Inada , Patricia Wakida , William Hohri. In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country. Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting