 Since the area was the home of the Pacific fleet, the Japanese community was forced to relocate after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.After first moving into Los Angeles, in 1942 his family was forced to move to the Manzanar relocation camp for internment of Japanese Americans in the Owens Desert of California.He attended Manzanar High School in the camp where he was a member of the camp baseball team and played saxophone in the camp jazz band called the Jive Bombers.