American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War

American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World WarIn American Sutra, Williams shares how the U.S. government forcibly relocated more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII and imprisoned them in detention camps on U.S. soil. Two-thirds of those interned were were practicing Buddhists who continued to worship in confinement, as Williams discovered through reviewing diaries and records of their stay in the camps.
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