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Jordan Stein, Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts, Pre-Echo Press/Jordan Stein, 2023, 454 pp. Excerpt: pp 24–25, 397

Miyoko Ito (1918–1983) was born in Berkeley, California, to parents of Japanese descent. In 1942, a month before she was due to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, she and her husband were sent to Tanforan, a concentration camp south of San Francisco. As a result, she was only able to complete her degree years later. Toward the end of the war, Ito moved to Chicag (…)