by The Great Teachers Japan
I visited Hiroshima on August 28th because there was an art exhibition called "Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani (1920-2012): The First Retrospective in Hiroshima" in Hatsukaichi City.
Let'me introduce this artist briefly.
Jimmy was born in Sacramento, California, in 1920 and raised in Hiroshima. At the age of 18 he returned to the U.S. to pursue a career in art and escape the growing militarism in Japan. He was living with his sister Kazuko and her family in Seattle when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Executive Order 9066 (the order by Americana President, Roosevelt) forced Jimmy and his sister to leave their houses and move to separate internment camps hundreds miles apart (during the war, approximately 120,000 Japanese or Japanese American living on the West coast were forced to move to one of 10 internment camps set up throughout the nation).





