‘Hands off our history’: Activists in Little Tokyo speak to affirm WWII history

Kyoko Oda, 80, was born in 1945 into incarceration at Tule Lake Segregation Center, where 30,000 Japanese Americans lived when forced from their homes during World War II.

Her father, Tatsuo Inouye, was isolated from his family and confined at the Tule Lake Stockade — a “prison within a prison,” as Oda called it, used to punish those labelled “disloyal” for resisting incarceration.

Eight decades later, Oda shared her story at “Never Again,” an event on Aug. 23 where she and other camp survivors, activists and community members spoke against President Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order.

“Today, our history is in danger of being erased in places like the National Monument at Tule Lake and Manzanar. Our government describes it as content sanitizatio