As a child growing up during World War II, Roger Shimomura was detained along with his family and other Japanese Americans at the Minidoka internment camp in Idaho. As he recalls in an oral history from "Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project", he later became an artist whose work focused on creating pieces that examine issues such as ethnicity, race, and the Japanese-American experience throughout the 20th century.  This interview from the Densho Visual History Collection was conducted by Alice Ito for Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project. It took place on March 18, 2003, in Seattle, Washington.