Every year a group of japanese-Americans gathers at Terminal Island, California to recall the past. Once called Fish Harbor, the island was a bustling community built around a fishing fleet and close family ties. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, American authorities forcibly ecacuated the residents to camps surrounded with barbed wire fences. During that painful experience, the village of Fish Harbor was repaced by whafside industies. The original community may have diappeared, but Fish Harbor lives on in the memories of present-day Terminal Islanders.
April 06, 2006
The Past Preseved
Every year a group of japanese-Americans gathers at Terminal Island, California to recall the past. Once called Fish Harbor, the island was a bustling community built around a fishing fleet and close family ties. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, American authorities forcibly ecacuated the residents to camps surrounded with barbed wire fences. During that painful experience, the village of Fish Harbor was repaced by whafside industies. The original community may have diappeared, but Fish Harbor lives on in the memories of present-day Terminal Islanders.
