Kori Suzuki (’23) explored a little-known piece of Japanese-American history that aired on NPR’s “Code Switch” in May 2023 for AAPI heritage month. This was his thesis project.

One of the most pivotal moments in Japanese American history was when the U.S. government uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and forced them into incarceration camps. But there is another, less-known story about the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans who were living in Japan during World War II — and whose lives uprooted in a very different way.