Saburo Masada: “A lot of fear spread among the Japanese community. So we started to burn anything that was Japanese-y, magazines, pictures with Japanese clothing. . . . Because we were afraid that the FBI would come and say, 'Why is that Japanese magazine in your home?' and things like that.”
Akiko Okuno: “We had a picture in the living room over the fireplace of Mount Fuji, so quick, that was taken down and burned. And any magazines and anything that had pictures of the emperor were burned.”
Chizuko Norton: “I remember very distinctly . . . throwing things into the fire . . . throwing Japanese records as well as photographs of people and relatives in Japan, especially those, we had several uncles who were by this time in the Japanese army.”
Saburo Masada: “I understood why we did all that, but I don’t understand why we had to do it, because we were Americans and we were loyal and we loved our country.”