It is 1986, the year that the U.S. government passes the Civil Liberties Act for providing financial reparation and an apology to all Japanese-Americans incarcerated in internment camps during World War II.

Visiting the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., to see a major exhibit on the subject, Satsuki Ina goes into shock -- not because she does not know that she had been born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center during her parents' 4-year imprisonment, but because there on display is a large photo of her father standing in a prison cell.

"It was at that moment, 20 years ago, that I realized how little I knew about my parents' experience," she says from the U.S. recently, just before flying to Japan. "For the sake of my family, I was determined to learn more."