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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Friday, July 1, 2016 Japanese-Americans remember incarceration By CHEYENNE SCHOEN Herald and News KLAMATH FALLS — Forty-four years after she was born behind bars, Satsuki Ina visited an exhibition at the Smithsonian about the Japanese-Amer- ican incarceration. It was there, in an exhibition room across the country from her San Fran- cisco Bay area home, that Ina came face- to-face with a man in a photograph on the wall. She recognized him instantly. It was her father, and the photo showed him in a prison camp in front of his jail cell. It was the irst time Ina had discov- ered the extent of her parents’ four-year incarceration. “My parents never spoke about it,” Ina said of the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry. “I had never really understood or known about what happened.” Ina was born May 25, 1944, at the Tule Lake maximum-security segregation center, just south of the Oregon-California border. It was the largest of 10 detention centers created by the U.S. government in 1942, holding nearly 19,000 inmates at its peak. The Tule Lake site was reserved for those who posed a security risk and were considered disloyal or disruptive to the other camps’ opera- tions. The only recollection Ina has of the camps is of leaving them on a train when she was small enough to put her hands on the arm rests and swing through the aisles. A seemingly innocent memory — but Ina recalls a certain kind of freedom she felt that day. “What I felt about that memory was it was not a jubilant time of being freed,” Ina recalled. “It was a time of great uncertainty.” The uncertainty stemmed from the fact that her parents, Itaru and Shizuko Ina, had renounced their U.S. Citizen- ship in 1941, hoping their detachment would allow them to be sent to Japan. Now freed from the camps, they did not know what the world would look like four years and an entire war later. And like many survivors of the camps, Ina’s parents made great efforts to assimilate back into American society. They kept their heads down. They did not ask for raises. And they rarely spoke about their experiences, so as not to pass along the trauma to their children. Instead, they strove to succeed. But Ina said the pressures Japa- nese-Americans put on themselves in order to succeed in the post-war culture caused great anxieties that trickled down for generations. “There is a signiicant amount of anxiety,” Ina said. “(They must) get a good job or a good education or stay out of trouble in order to survive, because they’ve been in this completely depressed lifestyle for up to ive years. It creates this sort of global response to the world. Am I doing this right? Am I clean enough? Am I honest enough?” Since that day in the museum, Ina has dedicated her life’s work to researching the Japanese incarceration and coun- seling generations of survivors, mainly Japanese-Americans, who have suffered trauma from their incarceration. She was a psychotherapist in Sacramento and Berkeley for 20 years, a professor emeritus at Cal State Sacramento, and has written, co-directed and produced two ilms about the incarceration. Now, Ina is one of hundreds of Japanese-Americans who ventures back to the site of their incarceration in the desert highlands of Tule Lake every two years. Though she is now retired from teaching, Ina’s work is not over. Every BRIEFLY State inds undisclosed pesticides in pot growing products “It is a place where thousands of lives were destroyed.” SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s Department of Agriculture says it has found traces of undisclosed pesticides in many of the marijuana- growing fertilizers and other products it tested recently. Inspectors tested 39 products. Spokesman Hector Castro said Thursday that of the 27 tests for which it has results so far, 15 had residues of pesticides that weren’t on the product’s label. That means growers could be using certain pesticides without knowing it. Some of the ingredients aren’t allowed in Washington’s legal marijuana system. Oficials ordered a statewide halt to sales of the 15 products, which include pesticides such as Safergro Mildew Cure for Powdery Mildew Control as well as fertilizers sold under the labels Humboldt Roots, Olivia’s Cloning Gel and Optic Foliar Overgrow. The Agriculture Department ordered licensed growers to advise customers who have used the products to advise their customers about it. — Satsuki Ina, On Tule Lake segregation center pilgrimage, she leads a symposium that invites survivors to discuss the impact of their wartime incarceration. This weekend will be her 11th pilgrimage back to the place she was born. “Many people get very triggered by what they’re hearing and it’s an emotional experience,” Ina said. “We want to give them time to talk about their emotions surfacing. There will be some people in their 90s, many in their 80s, and they will be mostly grieving about what their parents had to go through.” Part of the pilgrimage is the visit to the site of the former Tule Lake segre- gation center. Not much of the camp is left. Holes exist where the toilets once stood. The cemetery has since been mowed over, and it is not clear what happened to the bodies once buried there. But the memories remain ingrained in the minds of the survivors. For this reason, Ina said the Japa- nese-American community “feels very strongly” about preserving the Tule Lake camp site. “It is a place where thousands of lives were destroyed and descendants and survivors return to honor and mourn the losses that their ancestors suffered,” Ina said. “The pilgrimage is this very intense and powerful journey and part of people’s healing.” Hundreds of Japanese-Americans from a number of states will make the journey to Klamath Falls Friday, July 1, through Monday, July 4 for the program. Nike co-founder Phil Knight retires from board Oregon minimum wage, hotel tax goes up today By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press PORTLAND — New laws kicking in Friday will give a slight boost to the paychecks of more than 100,000 low-income Oregonians while tourists and vacationers will have a little less spending money in their wallets. Under the changes enacted by the Legislature earlier this year, the current 1 percent tax on hotel stays in Oregon will nearly double and the state’s $9.25 hourly minimum wage will climb by 50 cents in two of three newly-created geographic regions — metro Portland and smaller cities such as Eugene and Salem — and 25 cents in the third area’s rural communities located mostly east. The lodging tax hike to 1.8 percent, which will slip to 1.5 percent in four years, will help create a $25 million-sub- sidy for the 2021 World Track and Field Championships in Eugene and provide additional state tourism funds. Friday’s wage increase is the irst of seven happening annually through 2022, when metro Portland’s minimum will top $14.75, smaller cities at $13.50 and rural areas at $12.50. Employees who travel will either earn the wage from whichever region they spend more than half their time, by hours worked in each region or the highest rate of whichever region they work. With the federal $7.25 minimum unchanged in seven years, unions and labor groups have recently been pressing states and localities nationwide to make up the slack. A dozen state legislatures did so in 2014 and 2015, and this year California and New York became the irst to adopt $15 hourly minimums, higher than any other. Oregon falls short of $15, but it’s the irst state to toss the lat, statewide minimum for a tiered approach by region, where the differing wage rates are based on each area’s unique costs of living and other economic factors. “In the past six years, the number of people moving to Oregon has increased by 10 percent while much of our state’s job growth is happening in the low wage sectors of the economy. Combine that trend with housing costs skyrocketing and we have a problem,” Tom Chamber- lain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO union, said in a statement. “Solving that problem requires a multifaceted approach, and raising wages is central to that approach.” Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 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