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Document 2.
What happened?
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1942.
As a result America declared war to Germany and entered the second World War.
Sometimes, in times of war, people had to move out.
In 1942, was there a war going on on the American soil?
Japanese people were targeted and had to move out to another location?
Why?
What was the story?
Her first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine (Knopf, 2002), is about the incarceration of a Japanese-American family during World War II. It has been translated into eleven languages and was a New York Times Notable Book.
The book is based on Otsuka’s own family history: her grandfather was arrested by the FBI as a suspected spy for Japan the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and her mother, uncle and grandmother spent three years in a prison camp in Topaz, Utah.
