So it is Thursday October 24th at 10.45 a.m. What are we going to be talking about today?

All right, Roman. In the 1940s, Art Schibaama was a 13 year old kid living with his family in Lima, Peru, and his family, like

many other Japanese nationals, had immigrated to Peru for a better life. And the Schibayama's did become successful.

Arts parents ran a textile importing business.

His grandparents operated a department store.

So they were a prosperous Japanese Peruvian family.

That is until March 1st, 1944.

That's when Peruvian police arrived at the Shiba home, looking to round up the family,

including the kids, and hand them over to American soldiers. The Shiba Yamas were eventually put

on a US Army transport ship, the Cuba, that would take them and dozens of other Peruvian Japanese families to the United States.

The United States was at war and the American government was

looking for potentially dangerous persons to be sent to the United States from

Latin America, especially those who are ethnically Japanese.

And before setting foot in the United States, these Peruvian Japanese were stripped of

their passports and then they were taken to internment camps.

The Shiba family was shipped to an internment camp in Crystal City, Texas, where they were

supposed to remain until the end of the war.

There was a 10-foot fence of the war. There was a 10 foot fence surrounding the camp, 80

families shared one community bathhouse, and the school in the internment camp taught

the Shiba Yama children lessons in Japanese, but they only spoke Spanish.

Most people are familiar with the interment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,

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