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Watase Media Arts Center at the Japanese American National Museum;\nDistributor:;\nRuntime:35 minutes;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nBudget:;\nGross:;\nIMDBLink:;\nTrailerLink:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <p>\n  Documentary film consisting of short profiles of Japanese Americans whose \"surprising stories\" were shaped by World War II in unusual ways. The segments include\n </p>\n <p>\n  • Sumi Hughes and Yuri Long, two Nisei sisters who grew up in Florida, but who moved to Los Angeles just in time to be sent to\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Manzanar\" title=\"Manzanar\">\n   Manzanar\n  </a>\n  ;\n </p>\n <p>\n  • Terry Janzen, born to a white father and Japanese mother in Japan; after the family settled in San Bernardino, California, they were forcibly incarcerated at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Poston_(Colorado_River)\" title=\"Poston (Colorado River)\">\n   Poston\n  </a>\n  ;\n </p>\n <p>\n  • Harry and Hamako Schneider, a couple who met in Japan where GI Harry married war bride Hamako and settled in the US;\n </p>\n <p>\n  • Iris Teragawa, a Nisei born and raised in Oxnard and incarcerated at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Gila_River\" title=\"Gila River\">\n   Gila River\n  </a>\n  who later became a fashion designer who opened her own clothing store in West Hollywood, California; and\n </p>\n <p>\n  • Lloyd Inui, a Nisei who grew up in California, went to\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain\" title=\"Heart Mountain\">\n   Heart Mountain\n  </a>\n  , then resettled in Baltimore before becoming a pioneering Asian American Studies professor at Cal State Long Beach.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Each segment runs five to seven minutes and is built around an interview with the principal, with additional information provided by narrator traci kato-kiriyama.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Produced and directed by John Esaki for the Frank H. Watase Media Arts Center at the\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Japanese_American_National_Museum\" title=\"Japanese American National Museum\">\n   Japanese American National Museum\n  </a>\n  ,\n  <i>\n   Unexpected Journeys\n  </i>\n  was one of a series of Japanese American themed documentaries sponsored by Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Words,%20Weavings%20and%20Songs%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   <i>\n    Words, Weavings and Songs\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  (2002);\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Invisible%20Citizens:%20Japanese%20Americans%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   <i>\n    Invisible Citizens: Japanese Americans\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  (1983);\n  <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Empty%20Chair%20(film)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n   <i>\n    The Empty Chair\n   </i>\n  </a>\n  (2014)\n </p>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Streaming link:\n   <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mwJLOq-F3A\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mwJLOq-F3A\n   </a>\n  </p>\n  <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20250625170703\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.025 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.031 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 364/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 7915/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2195/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 4/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n  <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%   12.780      1 -total\n 26.62%    3.402      1 Template:Databox-Films\n 25.78%    3.294      1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 16.21%    2.072      1 Template:AuthorByline\n 15.56%    1.989      1 Template:Published\n 14.49%    1.852      1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n  <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4486-0!canonical and timestamp 20250625170703 and revision id 34905\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"}