Archives West Finding Aid

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States forcibly removed approximately 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Americans, relocating them in internment or prison camps across the West. Bunro Sakaeno wrote the diary translated in this collection while in the Fort Missoula, MT prison camp in 1942. He was later transferred to a prison camp in Santa Fe, NM where he resided until his release in 1945. This collection was donated by Priscilla Wegars an Affiliate Assistant Professor and curator of the University of Idaho's Asian American Comparative Collection. Her research focuses on the historical archaeology of Japanese and Chinese Americans in the 19th and 20th century.