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Both of his parents are part of the kibei generation — those born in the U.S., sent to Japan for school, and who later returned to work in the U.S.

He, my father, and my mother were Kibei, which meant they were born in the United States but were sent to Japan for their education.

Ina's parents were kibei, U.S. citizens born to immigrants but partly raised in Japan.

Many kibei were sent to Department of Justice camps, and my father was taken away.

The singers of racial discord might . . . get a better pitch from Hawaii where a gigantic Japanese population of Nisei, Issei, and Kibei have for years lived and worked amicably cheek by jowl with members of many other races.