About Mine Okubo

  • Biography

    The following obituary is from The New York Times:

    Miné Okubo, Whose Art Chronicled Internment Camps, Dies at 88
    February 25, 2001, By ERIC PACE

    Miné Okubo, a Japanese-American artist who recorded in 2,000 drawings
    and a book what she saw and felt as an internee in American detention camps for Japanese and Japanese-Americans during World War II, died on Feb. 10 in Manhattan. She was 88 and lived in Manhattan.

    Miss Okubo, who pronounced her first name mee-neh, was one of 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans living in Western states who were evacuated from their homes early in 1942. They were interned by the federal government as a precautionary measure, a move that has been much critic...

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