During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors

By Jake Whitney Photographs by Kevin Miyazaki On the morning of May 29, 1942, Mary Tsukamoto awoke to find her mattress on the floor. Glancing around the bedroom that she shared with her husband, Al, it took her a moment to get her bearings: Today was the day she and her family would lose their freedom. Their bed frame, along with the rest of their furniture, was in storage. “We had broken no law, committed no…