The book “Show Me the Way To Go To Home” is an immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. Photographers Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy tell the story of each camp through original photographs, personal stories, and government documents. It’s a frightening tale of a society that failed to protect its vulnerable.

The book also contains a Foreword by Dr. Karen Korematsu, Executive Director of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute and the daughter of the late civil rights icon, Fred Korematsu; an essay by Dr. Donna Nagata, Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan, on the multigenerational consequences of the incarceration, and poetry by Brandon Shimoda and Christine Kitano.

The book was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has won design and production awards. It can be ordered from Radius Books.

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To view a small selection of photos from each camp, scroll down and click on the name of a camp.