ABSTRACT
On 30 September 1943, the Tule Lake Relocation Center officially closed and
then reopened a month later on 1 November as the Tule Lake Segregation
Center.1 Those not desiring to return to Japan were sent to other relocation
centers. It was thought that this move would be temporary, and that the Japanese
citizens and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry would remain at Tule Lake only
until a third U.S.–Japanese exchange could be arranged. This third exchange
never took place.
