October 26, 2010

George Takei, the man known to the world as Star Trek’s Lieutenant Sulu, spent eight months as a young boy incarcerated at the War Relocation Camp at Rohwer (Desha County) during World War II. Rohwer was one of two camps in the state where Japanese Americans, judged a threat to national security, were imprisoned after being forced to leave their homes on the West Coast. Takei has returned to the state on several occasions and has written about the time he spent in Arkansas as a boy.