Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimil | dG1fVWlwcUNtRVpYd1k
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00:00 (music)
00:02 My musician name is Kishi Bashi, but my full name is Kaoru Makishi Ishibashi.
00:09 I've always been a proud American, but lately I've started feeling afraid.
00:13 I've been hearing a lot of hate speech.
00:15 I felt like I needed to speak up.
00:17 And then it kind of hit me.
00:19 I could write songs.
00:21 (music)
00:25 The United States of America was suddenly attacked by the Empire of Japan.
00:31 During World War II, the U.S. government rounded up 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry
00:36 and put them in concentration camps.
00:38 I wanted to see what had actually happened back then.
00:40 (music)
00:42 I was only a little kid, four years old.
00:44 As we pulled out, I can remember my father saying goodbye.
00:48 (music)
00:50 Forced removals, family separation, and mass incarcerations.
00:54 When will we stop repeating history?
00:56 (music)
00:59 "Omoiyari" is a Japanese word that means to have empathy and compassion for another.
01:03 (music)
01:05 We say enough and enough is today.
01:07 I wanted my daughter to be proud of where we had come from.
01:10 "Omoiyari."
01:11 I wanted that for myself too.
01:13 "Omoiyari."
01:14 (music)
01:17 In the end, we all want the same thing.
01:20 "Omoiyari."
01:22 Happiness.
01:23 (music)