Lesson 2 Essential questions addressed in this lesson

Lesson 2 鹿児島からカリフォルニアへ Essential questions addressed in this lesson: ●What challenges cause people to leave their home countries? ●What makes a place a “tourist attraction”? ●What gives some people the strength to persevere, while others give up?

労働（ろうどう）キャンプと日本人難民 “During the mid-1950 s, the Di. Giorgio Fruit Corporation sponsored a refugee program in which approximately 250 Japanese were directly recruited by Frank Kawasaki from the provinces of Kagoshima, Hiroshima, Wakayama, Shima, Yamaguchi, and Kagawa in Japan. These refugees were given permanent resident status, but few remained on the ranch. ” (National Park Service records)