He came of age in an internment camp only to find himself at the fore of an Asian American civil rights movement. And he says, proudly, he was never especially obedient as an adult, either. Matsuoka misbehaved as a child, imprisoned in the camp by the US government because of his nationality. Two gallon-sized cans of toy marbles, earned mostly after being dismissed from class for unruly behaviour, are buried somewhere beneath the ruins of the old camp, which is now a US national park. Manzanar, California – Jim Matsuoka left his marbles at Manzanar, the site of the Japanese American internment camp where he grew up during the second world war.
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