Takei studied acting at UCLA and, after a number of smaller stage and television roles, was cast in the role of Officer Sulu in Star Trek. Following their release in 1946, the Takei family returned to Los Angeles, where Takei’s father returned to the dry cleaning business and eventually became a very successful real estate agent. In the months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, when Takei was five years old, he and his family were incarcerated-alongside many other Japanese Americans-in internment camps, meant to protect national security by sequestering Japanese Americans in secure locations away from the general public.
Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.What does it mean to be American? Who gets to decide? When the world is against you, what can one person do? To answer these questions, George Takei joins co-writers Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott and artist Harmony Becker for the journey of a lifetime.George Takei was born in Los Angeles in 1937, and he was the oldest living child of three children. But long before he braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's - and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. George Takei has captured hearts and minds worldwide with his captivating stage presence and outspoken commitment to equal rights. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon - and America itself - in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. New York Times Bestseller!A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II.
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