Joyce Nakamura Okazaki
American citizen of Japanese heritage
📍 Los Angeles, California USA
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Joyce Nakamura Okazaki is an American citizen of Japanese heritage who was forcibly removed with her family from their Los Angeles home and placed in the Manzanar War Relocation camp in 1942.
She was photographed by Ansel Adams in both 1943 and 1944 for his book, Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans.
In the 2001 reprint of the book, Okazaki's photograph appeared on the book jacket cover.
She was the treasurer of the Manzanar Committee, from July 2010 to February 2021, an NGO which promotes education about the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans.
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