More than 200 people on Sunday came together in San Jose for a day of remembrance 81 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the incarceration of tens of thousands of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Walking through the streets of San Jose’s Japantown, people held tea lights to bring light to a time when 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to live in internment camps. Those in attendance gathered to remember the past injustices and to unite to prevent them from happening again.
Sumi Tanabe of San Jose was just 4 years old when her family was forced to leave their California