Remembrance walk honors 'painful' history of Japanese American internment camps

Remembrance walk honors 'painful' history of Japanese American internment camps

In Washington state, nearly 13,000 people were removed with about 30% of Japanese Americans returning to Tacoma after the war.

Washington, more than 70 years after the US government arrested more than 120,000 people of Japanese origin and put them in mass camps during the Second World War, today's majority of Americans consider that this policy was a shameful and unfair chapter in the country's history, according to a survey conducted by the YouGov Foundation, the first of its kind since 1942. The survey led by public opinion expert Kathy Frankovich, published last mont…