Bill Watanabe offers a story of courage and compassion in the wake of the Japanese incarceration during World War II.
Uncle Cecil graduated with an engineering degree from USC around 1936 and discovered to his dismay that no one would hire him. In desperation, he took on a welder’s job at a fishing-boat repair shop in San Pedro. Very quickly he became a master…
[Bill Watanabe is a legend in the Los Angeles Japanese American community. Born in the Manzanar concentration camp during World…