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Isamu Tagami
Isamu Tagami was born in Los Angeles CA in 1916 to Tojoro Tagami and Tatsuno Yamamoto. He made a living off of oysters and fishing in San Francisco CA. He spent a little over a year in a Japanese internment camp between May 12, 1944 and Dec 27, 1945. He was married to a Japanese woman named Makiko Tagami. He died in 1996 in Orange CA.

Early Life
Isamu spent very little of his childhood in the U.S, instead, he took a ship to Japan where he went through grades 1-12. When he came back home, he sailed on one of the last ships to sail from Japan to America just before World War 2, the Tatsu Maru. He left on March 14th 1936 from the port of Kobe, Japan and arrived in the city of Los Angeles CA

Internment Camp
After returning to the U.S, Isamu moved northward to San Francisco, where he set up his own fishing and oyster business. But in 1944, when the executive order came out that required all Japanese to leave their homes and relocate in certain specified areas, Isamu had to leave this behind and travel to Tule Lake, an internment camp in northen California.

Aftermath
When Isamu finally left Tule Lake December 27 1945 he returned to San Francisco and continued his fishing business and never spoke an ill word against the U.S for the year and a half of his incarceration. Several years after this he moved down to Anaheim CA and spent the rest of his life.

Death
Isamu Tagami died on November 7th 1996 and was buried in the Green Hills Memorial Park in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles county CA.