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I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great American stage of Broadway. In fact, I've dedicated much of the latter half of my life to ensuring the story of the internment is known.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.