Childhood Incarcerated 3b

Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Masako Iwawaki Koga (96.14.6, 96.14.7)

This object is part of the story , which is about Community & Culture.

Childhood Incarcerated, Community & Culture, Tule Lake

These are two report cards belonging to 11-year-old Masako. They are from her time spent at Tule Lake Segregation Center.

  • What do you notice about these cards?

Masako attended school in English, studying subjects such as language arts, arithmetic, social studies, and arts. She also studied Japanese, which is why one of these report cards is in Japanese.

  • Based on the evidence in these two documents, what can you learn about Masako?
  • Based on the evidence in these two documents, what can you learn about the community at Tule Lake?
  • Why would it be important for Masako, a young American of Japanese ancestry, to also study Japanese?