Great idea! I sort of like the idea of both parents being Japanese, myself. Stereotypically, a Japanese man marrying a White woman would be unusual for the time period, but I don't know what was ACTUALLY happening. (Nor do I remember/know when interracial marriage was allowed in California. It was NOT allowed in 1925; I have an antique legal book from back then.)

(If a Japanese-American man somehow made it back to Japan, he would've been drafted into the Japanese army...at least, according to a Japanese short story I read. The character's name was George I believe. Very interesting. [img]smile.gif[/img] )

I don't know much off the top of my head (though I'm sure I've read some stuff and the topic does interest me!). But relocation depended in part on exactly where the Japanese-American family was living in the first place. I don't remember the details, but I know that in Phoenix, AZ, I think there was actually a certain road, and Japanese-Americans on one side of the road were interred, and those on the other side weren't.

(If your girl is in California I suppose it wouldn't matter, though, unless they had relatives in Arizona or farther West, that they could write to.)

I'll see what I can find about culture/furniture/etc. in the time period, and leave the camp stuff to you. (I know a few things about Japan, but not much about Japanese-Americans in general.)

EDIT: If the family really was interred, it doesn't look like you'd have to worry too much about getting/making much pretty furniture, since all the sources I'm reading say they didn't get to bring much of anything. [img]frown.gif[/img] If they're not interred, I'm guessing they'd have either stuff shipped from Japan (which would probably be 1930s style or earlier...the Japanese 1920s were really fairly progressive and modern, so Western-inspired furniture then wouldn't be amiss as far as I know) or else just American stuff with some Asian flair.

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