here because we happen to be Japs. We all love life, and our country best, Our misfortune to be here in the west, To keep us penned behind that DAMNED FENCE, Is someone's notion of NATIONAL DEFENSE! Poston today A number of buildings built for the concentration camps are still in use today. Others, while still intact, are seriously deteriorated and in desperate need of maintenance. The majority were removed after the camp closed and the land returned to the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and many are still in use as utility buildings in surrounding areas, while the former residential areas have been largely converted to agricultural use. The Poston Memorial Monument was built in 1992, on tribal land with tribal support, and still stands today. Gallery Notable Poston internees Jack Fujimoto (born 1928), the first Asian-American to become president of a higher education institution in the mainland United States Tak Fujimoto (born 1939), cinematographer Mikiso Hane (1922-2003), professor of history at Knox College Frances Hashimoto (1943–2012), businesswoman and community activist Satoshi Hirayama (1931–2021), Japanese-American baseball player for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan's Central League James Kanno (1925–2017), mayor of Fountain Valley, California from 1957 to 1962 Yosh Kawano (1921–2018), clubhouse manager for the Chicago Cubs Robert Kinoshita (1914–2014), artist, art director, and set and production designer Doris Matsui (born 1944), member of the U.S. House of Representatives George Matsumoto (1922–2016), architect and educator Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), artist and landscape architect Vincent Okamoto (1943–2020), decorated veteran of the Vietnam War and judge Daniel Okimoto (born 1942), academic and political scientist Emiko Omori (born 1940), cinematographer and director Sandra Sakata (1940–1997), fashion designer and fashion retailer Ben Sakoguchi (born 1938), artist Roy I. Sano (born 1931), retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church Hideo Sasaki (1919–2000), landscape architect Noriko Sawada (1923–2003), writer and civil rights activist T.K. Shindo (1890–1974), photographer Teru Shimada (1905–1988), actor Kobe Shoji (1920–2004), an executive in the sugar cane industry, veteran of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, and athlete Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz (born 1933), artist and art educator Shinkichi Tajiri (1923–2009), sculptor Ronald Phillip Tanaka (1944–2007), poet and editor A. Wallace Tashima (born 1934), the first Japanese-American to be appointed to a United States Court of Appeals Hisako Terasaki (born 1928), etcher Tamie Tsuchiyama (1915–1984), worked on behalf of the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study George Uchida (1925–2004), judoka, wrestler, author, and coach Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011),