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DESCRIPTION:Join actor and social justice activist <strong>George Takei</s
 trong> at the Japan Society for a conversation about his personal story a
 nd his new Broadway musical\, <em>Allegiance</em>. Best known for his por
 trayal of Mr. Sulu on <em>Star Trek</em>\, and more recently for his role
  as a social media mega-star\, Takei spent a large part of his childhood b
 ehind the barbed-wire enclosures of US internment camps. His desire to she
 d light on this troubling chapter of American history\, in which some 120\
 ,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated from their homes to intern
 ment camps during World World II\, inspired him to develop <em>Allegiance
 </em>.\n\nThe event is moderated by <strong>Kermit Roosevelt</strong>\, w
 ho wrote a historical novel on the same topic. Roosevelt is a professor of
  constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the g
 reat-great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.<em>Followed by a rece
 ption.</em>\n \n<strong>Tickets</strong>: $20/$16 Japan Society <a href=
 "http://www.japansociety.org/page/support/individual">members</a>\, senior
 s &amp\; students\n\nMore information <a href="http://www.japansociety.org
 /event/george-takei-from-barbed-wire-to-broadway">here</a>.
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SUMMARY:George Takei: From Barbed Wire to Broadway
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