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In the damp Seattle of February 1942, a Japanese American mail carrier named Kenji Sato feels the unusual weight of the mailbag before he understands why. This Executive Order 9066 story unfolds on familiar routes through Japantown, where postcards sit out in the open, envelopes bear strange staples, and silence settles across doorways once filled with routine greetings. As restrictions tighten along the West Coast, the job that once connected homes begins to record absences.

In the weeks following Executive Order 9066, Japanese American internment became policy across the Pacific Northwest. Under the authority of the War Relocation Authority, families were removed from cities like Seattle and sent to assembly centers such as Puyallup’s Camp Harmony and incarceration sites including Minidoka Relocation Center. On the World War II home front, civil liberties narrowed under wartime censorship and emergency directives that reshaped daily life.

Set against documented events in United States history, this American history documentary explores Asian American history, postal service history, and the lived reality of wartime displacement. The broader historical record is real and well documented, while the characters and personal details are fictionalized or composite to present a coherent and human portrait of this period.

This channel presents American history through documentary storytelling focused on ordinary Americans during times of war and emergency policy, grounding real historical events in carefully researched narratives that reveal how bureaucracy and fear altered everyday lives.

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