Diane Rehm Show - The Internment Of Japanese Americans During World War IIBroadcast April 12, 2015 "Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. began rounding up tens of thousands of Japanese Americans. They were sent to concentration camps in the western U.S. For nearly four years, men, women and children spent their lives enclosed behind barbed wire, watched by armed guards in towers." "Guests "Julie Otsuka author of the novels "The Buddha in the Attic" and "When the Emperor Was Divine," which explores the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II. "Richard Reeves journalist and author of "President Kennedy" and "Daring Young Men." His newest book is "Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II."