In this 1941 photo released by Yoshio Matsumoto, Japanese students, including Yoshio Matsumoto, right rear, that avoided being sent to an internment camp by attending school at Washington University. Yoshio Matsumoto, an 88-year-old retired engineer,accompanied his grandson Andy, an incoming freshman, on the campus of Washington University, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 in St. Louis. Soon after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, at the height of American resentment against Japan, Washington University agreed to accept about 30 Japanese-American students from the West Coast, sparing them from internment camps. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

In this 1941 photo released by Yoshio Matsumoto, Japanese students, including Yoshio Matsumoto, right rear, that avoided being sent to an internment camp by attending school at Washington University. Yoshio Matsumoto, an 88-year-old retired engineer,accompanied his grandson Andy, an incoming freshman, on the campus of Washington University, Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 in St. Louis. Soon after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, at the height of American resentment against Japan, Washington University agreed to accept about 30 Japanese-American students from the West Coast, sparing them from internment camps.

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