Ben Sakoguchi   "Postcards from Camp"   acrylic on canvas   1999 - 2001    (George, Mary, Helen)

Excerpt from an Interview with George Sakoguchi in 1976:

"We couldn't even get a business license, so we wrote back to the directors of the W.R.A. and told them they wouldn't give us a business license.

They wrote to the County, or somebody, and said that we were an established business before the war, so they finally gave us a license. 

Naturally, I wasn't an American, but my wife was a citizen, so that's the only reason we got a license.  Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten the license, because I was born in Japan, classified as an Alien."

[George Sakoguchi]