Remains of Japanese-American Internment Camp Detainee Found on California Mountain

They placed stones over the body, topped with a granite column and a note detailing, in Japanese characters, Matsumura’s name and age. Ito and her children soon returned to Santa Monica, where they had lived before the war. Now a single parent, Ito worked multiple jobs to support her family. She died in 2005, at the age of 102. According to ...