1904 Ko Wakatsuki immigrates from Japan to Honolulu, then accepts passage to Idaho to work as a houseboy.
1906 Mama and Granny immigrate from Hawaii to Spokane, Washington.
April 18, 1906 San Francisco suffers a cataclysmic earthquake and fire the day before Mama and Granny arrive.
1909 Ko enters the University of Idaho to study law.
1915 Ko elopes with Mama.
1934 Jeanne Wakatsuki, the youngest of ten children, is born in Inglewood, California.
December 21, 1941 Ko Wakatsuki is arrested by FBI agents following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Winter 1941-42 Ko suffers from alcohol abuse and frostbite in both feet during imprisonment at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota.
February 25, 1942 The fatherless Wakatsukis are ordered to vacate Terminal Island because the government fears that Japanese Americans threaten the naval base.
April 1942 Twelve Wakatsukis move from Boyle Heights in Los Angeles to Manzanar and settle in Block 16 of the barracks. Mitsue Endo challenges her detention at Topaz Camp, Utah.
June 10, 1942 Wada and crew dedicate Manzanar's flagpole circle.
September 1942 Chizu gives birth to George, Ko's first grandson, the day before Ko returns from prison. Ko is labeled an inu, or collaborator.
December 1942 Militant pro-Japanese dissidents organize a camp riot. Camp officials provide families with Christmas trees.
February 1943 Internees are forced to sign a loyalty oath to honor the U.S. and serve in the military if called to do so.
Spring 1943 The Wakatsukis move to more bearable quarters in Block 28. Ko takes up gardening and prunes pear trees. Eleanor gives birth to a son while her husband, Shig, serves in the military.
