Inside: now and then: 2017 -- Animosity [John DeWitt] -- The Beacon [Ralph Carr] -- Seventeen stories: A Rose in the orchard [Rose Tanaka] -- The Activist and the Hibakusha [Marge and Michio Taniwaki] -- Amache's historian [Bob Fuchigami] -- 25 million ears of corn [Bob Sakata] -- S.K.Y. [Stanley Yoshimura] -- A Life time of social service [George Kawamura] -- Love story [Aster Oye] -- Homecoming [Chizuko Mommi] -- Dying words [Robert Doi] -- An enduring legacy [Minoru Yasui] -- Flashback [Carolyn Takeshita] -- A quiet voice [Bill Hosokawa] -- Through a camera's lens [Carl Iwasaki] -- Cost vs. benefits [Robert Hamado] -- "So more will know" [Stacey Shigaya] -- Urban renewl [Gary Yamashita] -- Final thoughts: author's note -- acknowledgements -- Appendix.

Map shows location of WRA and Justice Department internment camps.

"Countless books and magazine articles have been written about the gross injustice of Japanese-American internment during World War II, and how hard and degrading life was in the camps. But relatively little has been published about what happened after the nightmare ended. In fact, there's a positive story to be told--in the context of that regrettable period in American history--and Beyond the Camps captures it through interviews with former internees and their children."--dust jacket.