Watch: Sculptor Isamu Noguchi was exempt from Japanese internment camps but he went anyway

Noble but perhaps naive

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1 min readFeb 21, 2017

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When President Roosevelt authorized the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans on the West Coast into internment camps in 1942, sculptor Isamu Noguchi was exempt. But then, he made a brave and perhaps naive decision to join them.

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